Word: vincento
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vincento, the Duke, can't bear to bring the law down on his citizens himself. So he appoints a deputy. Then he sticks around in disguise--he wants to see whether power will pervert the poor deputy. Angelo, the once-Puritan deputy, threatens Isabel: Either you sleep with me or I'll have your brother killed for sleeping with that girl. Isabel, the heroine, with majestic certitude: "More than our brother is our chastity." A cutup from an Ex bench: "Come off it, sistah...
...recoiled violently -- she wanted to save a brother, not receive a lover. He hated her rejection, became brutal. I'd go see the scene twice more. John Mac-Fayden's (Claudio) scene in his cell with Miss Moss ticked along too. I didn't like David Hammond as Vincento. Some faults were the part's; some his. He behaved like a busybody old maid and the way he swept around the stage propelled by long thin whirring hands didn't help...
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