louiseculmer-85734
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Robert Newton plays James Brodie, a hatter who is consumed by the desire for power and importance. He has built himself a large grand house (the Hatter's Castle of the title) He bullies his wife and children, tyrannises over his employees, and is horrible to everyone who he encounters. His daughter ( Deborah Kerr) is loved by the handsome young local doctor James Mason, who (of course) Newton hates. Newton has a mistress, the lovely Enid Stamp-Taylor, who persuades him to give a job to her 'step brother' (actually former lover) played by the splendidly slimes Emlyn Williams. This of course leads to trouble and not just for Newton. The character of James Brodie is so unrelentingly horrible that I was unable to take him seriously. Especially absurd is the idea that he won't have servants and expects his wife to do all the housework - nobody with social pretensions in the Victorian era would have thought of not having servants, they were simply essential.
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Drama set in a hotel in the sedate English seaside resort of Bournemouth, hotel proprietor Wendy Hiller is engaged to long term resident, writer Burt Lancaster. But alas for Miss Hiller, Lancaster's ex wife Rita Hayworth turns up, and she wants him back. Among the other residents, David Niven is outstanding as a rather dodgy major who has formed a tentative friendship with shy, repressed Deborah Kerr. Kerr is oppressed by her overbearing mother, Gladys Cooper (who seems to have cornered the market in oppressive mothers). An interesting story with good characters and excellent acting all round. I couldn't help finding the presence of Burt Lancaster and Rita Hayworth in Bournemouth somewhat unlikely though.
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Mag(Sheila Hancock) owns a garden centre on the bank of the Thames downriver from Tower Bridge. Two of her three children, Hilda (Alison Steadman) and Monty (Jim Broadbent) work in the centre,the other one, Winston (Warren Clarke) is a wrestler. Wily businessman Wesley (Peter Cook) has his eye on the garden centre as a prime building site, and schemes to get control of it with the help of his handsome stepson Billy.
This series stars many of the same cast member as the previous year's Gone To The Dogs, but it is a much more fanciful story with supernatural elements. Like Gone To The Dogs though, I started out finding it very amusing, but was getting a bit tired of it by the time we got to episode 5. As with the previous series, Ithink it would have been better in four parts.
This series stars many of the same cast member as the previous year's Gone To The Dogs, but it is a much more fanciful story with supernatural elements. Like Gone To The Dogs though, I started out finding it very amusing, but was getting a bit tired of it by the time we got to episode 5. As with the previous series, Ithink it would have been better in four parts.
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