Word: nephews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also stirred some speculation about what the dickens the TV adapters may do next with the Yule classic. The time may be ripening for a modern-dress version, with Scrooge as a tough old union boss; a psychiatric adaptation ("These hallucinations of yours," says Scrooge's analyst nephew, "suggest a guilt syndrome"); or even a major switch as foreseen in a recent cartoon in which a clubroom lounger growls of his book: "It's a new story by that Dickens fellow about a worthy banker named Scrooge who finally degenerates into a sentimental weakling...
...vast French estate that has reproduced the world of inns and nightclubs and ice-cream wagons that were part of his romance. Into this world the prince's wacky, loving duchess aunt brings a young milliner who greatly resembles the ballerina. The aunt hopes that her nephew will fall in love once more. At first he resents and snubs the girl, while she surmises that he has never really loved the dancer. But soon all goes spinningly...
...characteristic of the production, as "a do-it-yourself picture." The idea, suggested of course by the success of Kind Hearts and Coronets, was to be killingly funny, but this time the whimsy is too flimsy. The rich uncle of the title (Charles Coburn) pays a visit to his nephew-(Nigel Patrick), a spectacularly impecunious peer - long on tradition and short on port. Wouldn't dream of "imposing" on his uncle for a loan. Heavens, no. Only decent thing to do is to murder the old boy. But every time the nephew baits a trap, who gets caught...
...lawyer's clerk is convinced he's the nephew of the Queen of Fairies, a knight that he will inherit the realm, the clergy that its pockets will be lined--and so on. The characters assume and discard identities with professional skill, and cavort from bedroom to laboratory with Elizabethan vitality...
...nephew, Richard Burton also gives an excellent performance, within a brooding role that provides no large chances for diversity. His speech is admirable, and he displays melancholy, boredom, and eventually honesty and a spark of life with great force...