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...time it seems that Sybylla will indeed submit, though not before a wild fox chase. She makes life miserable for an unsuitable suitor (so identified because his hair is parted in the middle), and is even harder on the suitable chap, Harry Beecham (Sam Neill), who is solemn, good-looking and earnest. But when she prankishly overturns a boat in which they are punting, soaking them both in their decorous, neck-to-ankle costumes, it can be assumed that she likes him. When he proposes, it is hard for her not to accept...
...were on the stage--no action is taken for granted. Davis ignites her portrayal of Sybylla with an uncompromising zest, a passion for living. Sybylla becomes a firecracker, exploding in the face of the convention that surrounds her. In one scene she shoves Frank Hawdon, a relentless and bungling suitor, into a pen of sheep and later leaves him stranded, miles from anywhere, as she flies off with their carriage...
...Harry and Sybylla's love less credible. He peers from underneath his broad-rimmed hats as if posing for Gentlemen's Quarterly. His one-dimensional and completely uninspired performance clashes with the superb acting of the other characters. Robert Grubb as Hawdon is especially outstanding as Sybylla's awkward suitor, and Pat Kennedy--who plays Beecham's stodgy Aunt Gussie--is an archetypal proponent of Vicotrian mores. Don McAlpine, the director of photography, in a sense presents the most stellar supporting performance. McAlpine's love for the Australian landscape builds to an affair that he reveals on the screen...
Undershaft vows to win daughter and suitor over. He visits Barbara's soup kitchen shelter and proves with an open checkbook that he can bribe the poor and buy the Army, which desolates Barbara. He then invites everyone to his munitions plant, where the workers dwell in a model city. From generation to generation the Undershaft inheritance can only go to a foundling, and Cusins qualifies. Moralistically sniffish, Cusins resists Undershaft's blandishments until the cagey old dialectician storms, "Dare you make war on war?" Cusins succumbs, vowing to arm the common man against "the lawyers, the doctors...
...nearly three months he met regularly and secretly with top executives at each of the three commercial networks, hearing their offers, learning their plans. The process involved quiet breakfasts in obscure restaurants, drinks and dinner in one suitor's apartment and marathon conversations in hotel rooms. "I find myself in a long final glide path," he said last week. "Three runways are stretched out before me. All three are beautiful. I could land on any one and be extremely happy...