Word: rapscallion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enjoyed your fine cinema review of The Horse's Mouth, but found it interesting where you state Alec Guinness "never quite manages to convince anybody that the old rapscallion [Gulley Jimson] is really a genius . . . He is a highly intelligent actor, but he simply lacks the demonic force to fill out a personality as large as Jimson's [Nov. 24]." I can't help thinking back a few years to when my late, demonic-forced husband, Robert (Odd Man Out) Newton, wanted to play Joyce Gary's hero. He was constantly being told he should...
...fortnight's grizzle, along with "eyes like a pair of half-sucked acid drops," and he has developed a horrendously comic walk. Yet he never lets the spectator forget that Jimson is a man of parts-though he never quite manages to convince anybody that the old rapscallion is really a genius. The stupefyingly loud and uninteresting pictures he paints (actually the work of Britain's 30-year-old John Bratby) are partly responsible for the failure, but Guinness must share in the blame. He is a highly intelligent actor, but he simply lacks the demonic force...
...drag Joy from the villain's premises. They screamed at Joy: "You will go to hell!" Their efforts were futile. Wilson was unbruised, Joy unbound, when bobbies swooped down on the domestic scene. Crimson with anger, John Stewart offered Wilson's diary as proof that the rapscallion was "not a genius" but just plain "mad." Rasped Stewart: "He thinks he's God!" The diary, noted newsmen, was indeed rather bizarre. Excerpt: "How extraordinary that my fame should have corresponded with that of James Dean, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and Lonnie Donegan, et al. Like James Joyce...
...reminiscent of Robert Louis Stevenson, so the movie faithfully echoes other good movies: the graveyard encounter between boy and convict in Great Expectations is almost exactly reproduced, while the affectionate bond between a rogue and youngster that illumined both Kidnapped and Treasure Island is duplicated in Moonfleet by Rapscallion Stewart Granger and Orphan Jon Whiteley...