Word: wolfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GOOD TIME. Bill Naughton has written a sharp-eyed comedy about a pair of newlyweds with an intimate marital problem and problem parents to boot. Naughton has some funny things to say, and Donald Wolfit and Marjorie Rhodes say them with polished expertise...
...GOOD TIME. Without resorting to soap-operatic mush or clinical psychologizing, Bill Naughton has written a sharp-eyed comedy about a pair of newlyweds with an intimate problem and problem parents. Naughton has some very funny things to say, and Donald Wolfit and Marjorie Rhodes say them with high talent and polished expertise...
...bridegroom (Brian Murray) is an intellectually bemused boy with Beethoven in his inner ear and a blue-collar father around his neck. Father (Donald Wolfit) is a deliciously unimpaired specimen of Cro-Magnon man who recalls that his father "always said that if a thing was natural, you'd see animals doing it. I've yet to see a horse reading a book...
...comic wonder of a cast, Marjorie Rhodes, as the bridegroom's mother, is the standout, batting out a caustic aside with a batted eyelash. If Father Wolfit is the cakes and ale of the play, Mother Rhodes is its gin and bitters. But the entire evening belongs to blessedly real people who are not crammed with half-baked oddities but full of bread-fed humanity...
Treasure Island (Sir Donald Wolfit; Wonderland). Stevenson's adventure classic takes its tone from Long John Silver, who in illustration and dramatization too often emerges as merely quaint. Sir Donald makes him properly crafty, rapacious and murderous ("Wait, is what I say, but when the time comes-kill...