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Lillian Hellman locks the tyrants and their victims into one family and plants it in a small Southern town. Regina and her brother Ben and Oscar, the nucleus of the family, vie among themselves for the position of Chief of the Wealth--struggling at the same time to keep their various relatives in line. Their disciplinary measures take effect. Everyone married and born to the trio is timid or ill when the lights...
Oscar Hubbard (E. G. Marshall) is a mean, vindictive half-man who vents his malice by slapping his genteel, alcoholic wife Birdie (Margaret Leighton). Oscar's brother Ben (George C. Scott) is shrewder, abler, more sardonic. Their sister Regina (Anne Bancroft) is ambitious for wealth, power and position. The trio's chance for the big money rests on joining a foxy Chicago manufacturer (William Prince) and sharing the costs of putting up a cotton mill. The key figure in the deal is Regina's husband Horace (Richard A. Dysart), ill in a Baltimore hospital. She orders...
Emotionally estranged from Regina and sick of the family's vulpine itch for plunder, Horace stubbornly refuses The play reaches its melodramatic peak when Horace suffers a heart spasm and pleads pitifully for his medicine. Regina lets him die without blinking an eye lash. That scene is still as chilling a moment of theater as it was when Tallulah Bankhead played the role (her finest...
...REGINA R. PATTERSON...
...even asked each of the Cabinet's 28 members to give a blow-by-blow account of his own electoral battles, delivered a wryly appropriate quote from Vergil when Veterans' Affairs Minister Alexandre Sanguinetti found it hard to talk about his defeat by 166 votes. "Infandum, regina, iubes reno-vare dolorem,"-murmured De Gaulle -"Unspeakable is the pain, O Queen, that you command me to relive...