Word: quilp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...QUILP...
...themselves and their loved ones on a journey to anywhere other than a theater full of restless children. The novel's intricate plot is-paradoxically-simplified into near incomprehensibility. Its rich characterizations are reduced to banality. Anthony Newley, who also composed the film's stupefying score, plays Quilp, a scheming moneylender whose machinations reduce Nell (Sarah Jane Varley) and her grandfather to begging. Newley works himself into a great lather turning Quilp's villainy into a parody of evil so broad that the most innocent child could not possibly be scared by the funny man. Of course...
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