Word: scot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ultimately, the movie rests squarely on the characterization of the Scot. Complete with burr and kilt, fierce and tender by turns, full of brooding and bravura, the role is an actor's dream. Actor Todd makes it come true...
...urging of a nurse who is determined that the Scot shall die among friends, they manage to thaw him out into the friendliest man in the place. When Todd learns that he has been befriended out of pity for his imminent death, he lapses into his old bitter pride, and it takes all of the script's doing to bring him around in time for a lighthearted but misty-eyed ending...
...major, he drifted into acting while hanging around the English stage to pick up pointers on writing a play. In Scotland before the war, he was a cofounder, part-time director and actor of the Dundee Repertory Company, where he once played in The Hasty Heart, not as the Scot ("I wouldn't have dared in Scotland") but as the American ("And I wouldn't try that part in America...