Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patrol's commanding officer (Denholm Elliott) is a well-bred British fumbler who keeps getting his men bushwhacked on an island in the South Pacific. The cynic-in-residence is a cool-eyed cockney medic (Michael Caine), who alternates between bandaging the wounded and needling his commander. A reluctant Japanese-language specialist seconded from the American Navy (Cliff Robertson) is straight out of The Bridge on the River Kwai; he becomes the company pragmatist who is determined only to save his own neck. The rest of the motley crew consists of bellyaching foot soldiers (Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Lance...
...quitting her lucrative fashion career for the uncertainty of the cinema. Director Ken Russell (Women in Love), who will do her first flick, says: "She'll be the greatest thing to hit the screen since Monroe." "It's got to be something nice," insists the 91-lb. cockney sprite best known as Twiggy. "I couldn't do a big sexy role...
Pritchett's voice is slightly cockney, a tone entirely appropriate, as it happens, to his subject. For his heart belongs to that peculiar, sprawling, provincial, shabby, comic, still Dickensian conglomeration known as Greater London. That, too, is for the best. Social comedy like Pritchett's might easily turn sour if it were not based on a heart that resists transplant...