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...disgraced Beau into his North Af rican exile as a legionnaire, there's some amusing game afoot. Peter Ustinov, as a sadistic sergeant, is equipped with a movable scar - not unlike Feldman's shifty hump in Frankenstein - and the director has given Ustinov and his horse matching peg legs. But the whole pro ject soon begins to deflate under the hot sun. Maybe the canvas - all those broad desert expanses and empty skies - is just too big to fill up with gags, or maybe the nostalgic pull of earlier Beau Gestes remains too strong, even at this late...
...Peg Tyndell Albany...
...which is hung on a hook above the bar. The most veteran member of the group hangs his hat on a hook around the corner, and when his time to go home comes his robed colleagues recite an elaborate liturgy of farewell toasts, and move their hats up one peg. They all know that the next assignment has got to be better...
Jaques (also Shakespeare's invention), the cheerless square peg in a round hole, reflects the Elizabethan era's fascination with neurotic states of mind (as in the plays of Ben Jonson), which would climax a few years later in the publication of Burton's huge Anatomy of Melancholy. Jaques is the counterpart of Malvolio in Twelfth Night, which Philip Kerr played so admirably here two years ago. Kerr is now imbuing Jaques with the same wide-stanced, pigeon-toed gait he used for Malvolio. To this he has added a wonderful pasty face and a hilarious mannerism of gargling...
Bryan chronicles the Mullen's struggle, which soon consumed their lives, and reminds us of the horror of the Vietnam years. He quotes at length from the cold government form letters which responded with hazy platitudes to the Mullens' anguish. At one point, Peg resorted to a dictionary to look up the word "prolong"; she was trying to determine how long it took Michael...