Word: signoret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Term of Trial. Sir Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret, cast as the Mr. and Mrs. Chips of a mill-town slum, memorialize an appalling marriage with charm and admirable finesse...
Term of Trial. Sir Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret, cast as the Mr. and Mrs. Chips of a milltown slum, memorialize an appalling marriage with charm and admirable finesse...
...Prometheus this time is a sensitive and dedicated teacher, Graham Weir (Oliver). His woes include a nagging wife, (Simone Signoret), a prison record for conscientious objection to World War Two, and a classroom full of monsters and hoodlums. One pleasant fellow in particular, Mitchell(Terence Stamp), has teacher assaulted by thugs when he feels slighted. Long suffering Weir refuses to "bash the little beggars," as more practical colleagues suggest; his code of sensitivity and non-violence is at length rewarded when two pupils show genuine signs of intellectual curiosity...
...corridors, sleezy alleys. Even symbolism raises its heavy head: a train rushes by into the night as the prelude to the crisis scene between Shirley and Weir in his bedroom. The dialogue is so prosaic that it is often funny; a tense verbal duel in bed between Olivier and Signoret got more laughs than the presumably witty "Arabic" interchange in Manchurian Candidate...
ASTOR: A pair of biting and powerful British films about angry young men on the way to nowhere. The much celebrated ROOM at the Top has all the punch of John Braine's novel, thanks to the acting of Simone Signoret and Lawrence Harvey. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is, if anything better. It has the advantage of superb screenplay by young Alan Sillitoe ("The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner") and near perfect execution of the lead by Albert Finney, an actor hailed by some as the next Olivier. See them both...