Word: aristocrats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tells the story of an aristocrat whose pride and obsession with music take from him first his fortune and family, later his reason and life. Set against him throughout and surviving him at last is one of the new businessmen, a greased, grotesque man of the sort who scorns religion by spitting in the holy water. The action is ineluctable, the outcome foregone and well-augured. The end is a wild, terrible gallop. The old horse rears to avoid running onto the bow of an abandoned boat and the Zamindar falls, his prized blood dampening the sand...
Chabi Riswas, one of India's leading actors, plays the aristocrat. He has the imperious laugh and slightly flacid look of the landowner and master. When he mounts for the last charge, he must be revered, not because he is himself endearing, but because the alternative is a world of half-smoked cigarettes and tooting car horns. He is the only character in the movie who is more than the stock figure of a class or station...
...party line, they have received little in the way of socioeconomic remuneration for their loyalty. Politically, they fare even worse: only one Mexican-American, Democratic Congressman Edward Roybal, 51, has made it to the House of Representatives, and he, as many pochos point out, is a New Mexican-born aristocrat who pays little attention to the problems of the barrios...
Gage took more bit out of the rebellion by miscasting the rest of the actors. Dave LeMire (Colonel Redfern) played a representative aristocrat. He used a pursed-lipped, hoity-toity voice as phoney as his old age lines. The result was that the contest between classes and between generations wasn't credible. Chris Hart (Cliff Lewis) is a dewy-eyed boy instead of a babysitting adult. He made Jimmy Porter sound vaguely professional...
...backed comfortably into pipe-puffing middle-age. Outwardly content, he is actually bored with his life and his pregnant wife, and yearns to recapture his vanished youth in an affair with Sassard, an Austrian princess. She, however, has two far more successful suitors. The first, an agreeable adolescent aristocrat (York), becomes her fiance. The other, a university tutor (Stanley Baker) who seems to have a postgraduate degree in seduction, becomes her lover...