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Scream of Fear (Hammer; Columbia). "You must be dead." the stepmother (Ann Todd) murmurs with sinister sympathy as the wan little crippled girl (Susan Strasberg) turns her wheelchair wearily toward bed. Poor child, she hasn't had an easy life: a divorce in the family, a fall from a horse, nine years of physical limitation and nervous debility. Then suddenly her mother's death, and now an anxious new beginning in her father's house. Odd, come to think of it, that her father isn't there to meet her, but then of course business...
...title story is linked to the original. Oedipus at Colonos, mostly through the image of an old. maimed man living in the care of his daughter. A disabling illness has put the father in a wheelchair-embittered, suspicious, and nursing a hatred for his schoolteacher wife, who contemptuously doles out his spending money. Daughter Antigone lives in a tight, self-woven net of deceit. She has retained the original name and relentless sense of justice of her counterpart in Sophocles' Antigone, but not her virtue, purity or innocence. She takes on a married man as a lover...
Aiding the Legend. The brothers keep in touch with their father, who at 66 spends much of his time in a wheelchair as a result of two recent strokes, but they rarely consult him about business deals any longer. To B. H. Majors, an old Murchison family friend, the boys are motivated above all by a desire "to do right by their father and the legend he has created." They certainly live by a principle inculcated in them by old Clint. Says Clint Jr.: "There isn't any sense in having $40 million in the bank or even...
...lanky vice president and director of his father's steel, aluminum and auto empire, who, first stricken by multiple sclerosis in 1944, defied orders to rest ("This to me was like a sentence to a living death"), kept on working even after he was confined to a wheelchair; in Oakland, Calif...
...play, it is dramatically Elizabeth's story. An attractive, mercurial, at once cool and responsive woman, Elizabeth lost the use of her legs after the death of her father and then her sister, walks on crutches and awaits-or, as Freud suggests, looks forward to-a wheelchair. At first she is mockingly certain that he can find no cure where a shoal of specialists have failed. Then she warms to him until-sympathizing, badgering, cajoling, but endlessly probing her mind-he probes too far; for she, meanwhile-talking, laughing, sparring, flirting, recollecting-blurts out too much. She then backs...