Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose three daughters have reached the physical age for marriage. Father, however, has reached the mental age where he cannot let them go, especially when a substantial marriage portion goes with each one. The old terror stalks from his "rightful 'ome comforts" to his "reasonable refreshment" at the pub, bragging in one place about his eminence in the other, while his daughters run the business for him and see their suitors...
...gnawing migraine, a mere stump of a left arm. Honorably discharged but too beaten up to realize the fact. Ferdinand goes to London, where he makes a beeline for the French "colony" on the river ("That's what they call the Thames"). In a dockside pub he teams up with Boro, a sleazy French pianist "who was in the habit of wearing plum derbies...
...crazed man runs to an echoing valley and there hurls the 23rd Psalm against the ringing hills solely to hear the answering sound of his own distorted voice. In a drunken revel, O'Herlihy re-creates in his cave all the roistering cheerfulness of an Elizabethan pub, but this ends, too, in a disillusion so great that he walks blindly into the surf, bearing aloft a blazing torch. When he drops the brand into the sea, it is as though his own humanity were extinguished...
...only pub in No Place, the pitmen agreed that they would not abandon No Place without a fight. The pits still had 30 or 40 years' working in them, they argued. The Rev. Ronald Halstead came over from his vicarage in West Felling, a mile away, to organize a protest meeting...
Enter the bustling chaplain (Alastair Sim), rubbing his -hands. "Brrfssk! Ah! What have we here?" He has, for his first assignment as a World War II entertainment officer, a British army camp. The troops, he soon discovers, would rather have a pint at the village pub than enjoy the weekly entertainment provided for them by a group of patriotic ladies known as the May Savitt Qualthrop String Quartet. The daring chaplain decides to compromise and give the boys a local talent quiz show...