Word: octavius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft and chivalrous idealizer of woman, is not a completely successful character; as usual when Shaw attempts this type, the result here is a second-rate Shelly. Ellis Rabb makes the part into a delicate caricature of delicacy, amusingly undermining any possibility of our trying to take poor Octavius seriously--which may be just as well. Tom Martin is good as the new Leporello; Cavada Humphrey and Robert Rees Evans are adequate but labored as the heroine and hero of a romantic subplot...
Barry Morse as the iconoclastic John Tanner plays with deft versatility which succeeds in both the comic scenes and the more serious Don Juan in Hell interlude. Opposite Morse is Nancy Wickwire who sparkles as Tanner's impish, if unwanted, suitor. As the sentimental slush Octavius Robinson, Michael Higgins is handsome, winsome, and properly Victorian...
...pass the salad, pass the salad,' until it gets as dull to your ear as water dripping from a faucet." He also dislikes some of the character-diluting cutting that moviemakers do. One final unkind cut in Caesar: "During the battle-I've forgotten the lines-where Octavius says something like 'Man, what's happening?' and I say 'Cool, Dick...
...Julius Caesar. And in this checkered struggle for domination, it is not wisdom that triumphs in the end (Caesar lies bleeding in the Capitol), nor idealism (Brutus is dead by his own hand), nor passion (Antony and Cleopatra are dead by theirs): what triumphs is the cold calculation of Octavius Caesar...