Word: trimmingham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marion, Marcus's older sister, is the inevitable object of Leo's yearnings. At once the warmest of the Maudsleys, she also hides more mysterious secrets. While dawdling with a perfect match, the Viscount Hugh Trimmingham, she is making love to a tenant farmer, Ted Burgess. After a series of plot coincidences which seem audacious in a contemporary movie-going context, but are somewhat justified by the boy's mystic qualities, Leo becomes Mercury, the messenger of the gods, the go-between delivering letters of rendezvous from Burgess to Marion...
...that it is not difficult to see how she could be so many things to the men and to Leo. Alan Bates is an earnest Burgess (similar to his shepherd in Far From The Madding Crowd); Edward Fox (James's brother?) puts in a fine cameo as the scarred Trimmingham. The young Dominic Guard is suitably discomfited and ruddy as Leo. All are bathed in photographer Gerry Fisher's impeccable lighting, while Michel Legrand contributes an appropriate formal--and lovely--musical score...
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