Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kill Uncle. "You're a charming child, Barnaby," says dear old Uncle as he smiles (or is he merely showing his teeth?) at his twelve-year-old orphan nephew. "But five million dollars charming, you're not." What Uncle means to say in his usual genial way is that since he stands to inherit Barnaby's estate if Barnaby should have a fatal accident, he intends to make sure that Barnaby has a fatal accident-fast...
...denounced as a pair of latent homosexuals. Why do teen-agers idolize the Beatles? Explains Joyce Brothers, formerly a TV "authority" and now a columnist on psychological matters: "It's because of their 'Oliver' haircuts and too-short jackets. Oliver Twist, you will recall, was an orphan. By embracing a quartet of orphans as heroes, our teen-agers achieve two unconscious goals. They symbolically 'kill off' the adult generation. They show how neglected and misunderstood they believe themselves...
...decades, of all the boys except two brothers whose determination to outlast each other provides the plot for the next two hours. The absurdity and delicious macabre blend of this premise might have made a first-rate English film. What results, however, is a superficial humorless mishmash of plotting orphan descendants, ridiculous Victorian satire, and cliche mixups...
...they are given little enough to do. Most of the action is centered around miscast, awkward, misty-eyed Michael Caine whose guardian is one of the brothers (you may have liked him in The Ipcress File but wait till you see him now) and his courtship with an orphan whose guardian is the other surviving brother. In an eminently forgettable role, she is a caricature of supposed Victorian modesty (her cousin's hobby of collecting eggs is deemed "obscene" and she practically faints when Caine, a medical student, informs her that his great interest is the human body...
...plot is another sack of potatoes, however. The heroine (Sarah Miles) is a Hibernian Orphan Annie who in rapid succession sees the young man she loves run away to sea, gets pregnant by a beastly Britisher, suffers a miscarriage in a London gutter, hurries home to find the young man she loves engaged to another girl, winds up on Christmas morning bravely smiling through tears. Her tears fall in such torrents, in fact, that viewers may wonder why the camera was not equipped with windshield wipers. They may also wonder how Director Desmond Davis and Novelist-Scriptwriter O'Brien...