Word: ashcroft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generations past: "Lloyd George knew my father/ My father knew Lloyd George," sung, ad infinitum, to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers. This play features a potty old retired general (Ralph Richardson), whose thought processes seem to have stopped around World War I, and his spry-spirited wife (Peggy Ashcroft). She is resisting progress in another way by making calm, matter-of-fact preparations to commit suicide if the government bulldozes a throughway across the baronial estate. It doesn't and she doesn't. This asthmatic little item would wheeze its way into oblivion but for the robust...
Although the trio constitute most of the film, Schlesinger has not slighted even the smallest subordinate role. A 53-year-old hence unemployable businessman (Tony Britton) is a character worthy of a tragedy all to himself. In a single scene, Peggy Ashcroft as Alex's mother furnishes her daughter with an almost schizophrenic past...