Feature Aliya Whiteley 26 Sep 2013 - 07:13
An acting great British of the post-war era, Trevor Howard's the subject of a new movie box set. Aliya looks at its five classic films...
It's difficult to describe Trevor Howard. I could start by saying he was a great leading man of British post-war cinema, but that leaves out his supporting turns in films like The Third Man, and his character performances, such as Captain Bligh in Mutiny On The Bounty (1962), or Sir Henry At Rawlinson End (1980). He could be called an upper-class gentleman, but in Sons And Lovers (1960) he played a Nottinghamshire miner perfectly.
I could talk about how he wasn't traditionally handsome, but the look in his eyes when he falls passionately for Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter) contains a male beauty that continues to define cinematic love today. Or maybe I could mention how perfectly he inhabited the role of...
An acting great British of the post-war era, Trevor Howard's the subject of a new movie box set. Aliya looks at its five classic films...
It's difficult to describe Trevor Howard. I could start by saying he was a great leading man of British post-war cinema, but that leaves out his supporting turns in films like The Third Man, and his character performances, such as Captain Bligh in Mutiny On The Bounty (1962), or Sir Henry At Rawlinson End (1980). He could be called an upper-class gentleman, but in Sons And Lovers (1960) he played a Nottinghamshire miner perfectly.
I could talk about how he wasn't traditionally handsome, but the look in his eyes when he falls passionately for Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter) contains a male beauty that continues to define cinematic love today. Or maybe I could mention how perfectly he inhabited the role of...
- 9/25/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
"If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it, on drink."
Right, let's get some pants on this phantom.
"I am Hubert. I do not know my last name. I was found in a snowstorm, clutching a tiny bundle, and on my finger—no wedding band." So says Hubert, played by Vivian Stanshall, in 1980's Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, demonstrating a peculiar form of romantic insanity which might involve him confusing himself with his own late mother, or possibly with the opening scene of Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs.
1980 was a particularly horrible year for British cinema, which seemed to teeter on the verge of complete gangrenous moribundity (a condition that had been gaining purchase throughout the seventies, altogether a more fecund, ballsy period, but tainted with decay even so) and so it's quadruply strange that The Famous Charisma Label, a record company...
Right, let's get some pants on this phantom.
"I am Hubert. I do not know my last name. I was found in a snowstorm, clutching a tiny bundle, and on my finger—no wedding band." So says Hubert, played by Vivian Stanshall, in 1980's Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, demonstrating a peculiar form of romantic insanity which might involve him confusing himself with his own late mother, or possibly with the opening scene of Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs.
1980 was a particularly horrible year for British cinema, which seemed to teeter on the verge of complete gangrenous moribundity (a condition that had been gaining purchase throughout the seventies, altogether a more fecund, ballsy period, but tainted with decay even so) and so it's quadruply strange that The Famous Charisma Label, a record company...
- 3/4/2010
- MUBI
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