Word: valets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Losey adds one character not found in the original, a mysterious young valet in black who hovers wordlessly in virtually every scene of the Don's, often exchanging intimate glances with him. A nemesis? An illegitimate son? A homosexual lover? (A dubious motif also suggested by the epicene revelers at the Don's supper.) The figure, mimed with sullen sensuality by Eric Adjani (Isabelle's brother), remains cryptic and annoyingly gratuitous. He does, however, make a perfect emblem for Losey's whole approach. This Don Giovanni deserves the old line once used by Dorothy Parker...
...nerve gas from a rare South American orchid. Drax surrounds himself with luxury, not to mention an Asian Martial arts expert, two hungry Dobermans, and steel-mouthed giant Jaws (Richard Kiel) who pursued Bond through The Spy Who Loved Me with as much dispatch as Goldfinger's hat-tossing valet, Odd Job. Bond neatly thwarts all of Drax's attempts to "see that some harm comes to him," which include an out-of-control centerfuge, hidden snipers, and of course, Jaws...
...sign in the window that said CBS NEWS COVERS THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT. Every chauffeur in Vienna was hired by the invading electronic hordes, and Barbara Walters arrived only after an advance team had plotted her moves as they do for a President. She came with a journalistic valet who carried notes, coats, pencils...
Britain's Ambassador to The Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes, 58, had just stepped into his silver-gray Rolls-Royce for the four-minute ride from his residence to the British embassy in The Hague. As Sykes' Dutch valet, Karel Straub, 19, closed the car door, two men suddenly emerged from the back of the courtyard. One fired a revolver through the rear side window of the limousine, hitting Sykes four times; the other gunman shot Straub twice at close range. Sykes and Straub died later in the hospital...
This is a tale of Old Boy meets Old Girl, but does Old Boy lose Old Girl again? Cecil (Harrison) is an English novelist and knight who lives in autumnal bachelor ease at his country house with the aid of a loyal valet, Hawkins (George Rose), who is not above discreetly reproving his master or sampling his port. Into this Eve-less Eden strolls the recently widowed Evelyn (Colbert). It's not the first time. Fifty years before, the same majestic tree that spans the garden had seemed the arbor of true love to Evelyn and Cecil...