Word: priggishness
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...previously shown a not-altogether-punctilious concern with things Celtic (The Sword in the Stone), has now undertaken to preserve this heroic figure as he always preserves a heroic figure: by embalming it in marmalade. In the new movie, one of the great fighting Irishmen is transformed into a priggish Prince Valiant and his complex politico-military career made into the sort of primary-colored comic strip that parents consider safe and children consider dull...
...Singewald, as the aged Countess of Rousillon, sends her young son off to the French court and reacts to his priggish follies with precisely the right air of elegantly detached concern. Anthony Dawson, as the old lord Lafeu, looks and moves as an old man should; in delivering what could be Polonius-like lines, he shuns both casualness and sententiousness. Peter Johnson, as young Count Bertram's follower Parolles, burlesques his role into an amusing Falstaff figure...
Charles Boyer (who presumably knew what he was doing when he signed on for this movie) is so impressed by Rock's supermanhood that he pleads with him to seduce his priggish psychologist daughter, Leslie Caron, and thereby give her a taste of what she is missing in life. Because he owes Boyer a favor, Rock reluctantly but confidently tackles the job. He poses as a patient whose problem is that women constantly tear off their clothes the minute they see him. "What I'd give to have a body nobody wanted!" he sighs, and wonders if perhaps...
...PUSSYCAT. In Bill Manhoff's romantic merry-go-round, a neurotic prostitute (Diana Sands) has a priggish book clerk (Alan Alda) running around in sidesplitting circles...
...PUSSYCAT. In Bill Manhoff's romantic merry-go-round, a neurotic prostitute (Diana Sands) has a priggish book clerk (Alan Alda) running around in sidesplitting circles...