Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morgan! This wildly offbeat black comedy from Britain, adapted by Scenarist David Mercer from his own BBC television play, tells how an unmanageable, eccentric young painter is destroyed by his love for his mother, Karl Marx, King Kong, and a sleek London socialite named Leonie. Leonie is Morgan's wife, but she has just divorced him. His idea of wooing her back is to put a skeleton in her bed or to wire her boudoir with shattering hi-fi sound effects, hoping that her lover and husband-to-be may die of fright. He steals Leonie...
Warner, as Morgan, catches every kink and twitch of a natural misfit who can only sense progress when he is swimming against the stream. In his world of fantasy, he is brutal, primitive. To the world at large, he looks rather more like an adolescent giraffe perpetually swallowing the lump in his throat. The real world gains on him when, armed with several lethal weapons, he confronts his rival, "a greasy art dealer," and hoarsely croaks: "She married me to achieve insecurity-you can't take that away from her!" The point is almost proved by Vanessa...
Director Reisz sustains the free-flowing tone with cinematic stunt work. He freezes the action, speeds it up, reveals the texture of Morgan's fancies by inserting film clips of Tarzan and of the original King Kong roaring approval at Fay Wray. The film's funniest scenes, though, are the earthy encounters between Morgan and his dear Ma (Irene Handl), a dotty old Red square who refuses to destalinize and can't imagine what her late husband would have thought, seeing their son a class traitor among all those Mayfair types. "He wanted to shoot the royal...
...DEAN MARTIN SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Relaxing with Dean are the Supremes, Imogene Coca, Jackie Mason, the Tijuana Brass and Jane Morgan...
Stocks v. Bonds. Money is costlier to borrow now than it has ever been since the Depression, and the effects of that phenomenon on the market are tremendous. A promising market rally last week fell flat after Morgan Guaranty President Thomas Gates announced a boost in the prime rate to an alltime high of 5½% . That announcement hit at 2:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, and by closing time at 3:30 the New York Stock Exchange floor was still a scene of frantic selling activity. Within little more than an hour after Morgan Guaranty's pattern...