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Early in August 1959, homeowners along the stylish Pacific Ocean beaches in Santa Monica, Calif., were dismayed to get a new set of neighbors: a bedraggled platoon of half a hundred men and women, who moved into a rundown, three-story, red brick building that once was a National Guard armory. White and black, young and middleaged, criminals and innocents, artists and loafers, the unlikely assortment shared one trait: they were narcotics addicts determined to kick their habit for good...
...League of Gentlemen. Ex-Colonel Jack Hawkins leads a proper platoon of the Queen's Own Down-and-Outers against the outmanned forces of law and order...
...League of Gentlemen. Ex-Colonel Jack Hawkins leads a proper platoon of the Queen's Own Down-and-Outers in a hilarious campaign against the outmanned forces of law and order...
...second reason for disliking Miller is that most of his characters are either improbable or dull. Chris is both. After seeing his platoon wiped out around him, he returns home with his ideals intact, full of talk about bravery, camaraderie, and general intolerance for cowardice. Miller's representation of the relationship between the men who went to war and the folks back home is far from a responsible, accurate social picture. Then there is the mother, obsessed by fear and guilt, but always a pragmatist. After her husband's suicide, her immediate words are, "Don't take it on yourself...
...named the village in Under Milk Wood "Llareggub." As for the roarious Jethro, he is engaging as a boy, but loses credibility as he grows older; he is forever lapsing into derring-do, despite the derring-don'ts of his womenfolk. At the end, he escapes a platoon of dragoons and a mine cave-in, and boards ship for the U.S. Cordell can be counted on to tell more of this lad, who will arrive in the New World in good time for Harpers Ferry and Bleeding Kansas...