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...emotional essence, is contained in the smaller picture: a woman, her formerly unacknowledged maternal instinct raised to full inner scream by exotic and terrifying circumstances, takes a frightened child into desperately protective custody. The payoff is in the large photo: the climactic confrontation between this woman and her chief tormentor, leader of the alien monsters and -- ironically, grotesquely -- a single mom herself. Since she is a well-armored insect about 14 ft. tall, determined to propagate her kind, and since that activity requires human lives to be accomplished -- as many as she and her innumerable brood can lay merciless pincers...
Meanwhile, the stoic-if-vindictive colonel is contriving to have the last laugh on his unseen tormentor, who will gain the family fortune only if Fairfax dies a bachelor. The Lieutenant of the Tower (David Magill), another Fairfax fan, agrees to find him a woman who will marry him before his execution in exchange for a hundred crown dower. The woman in question is is Elsie Maynard (Michelle French), a traveling minstrelette who does the country fair circuit with jestering partner Jack Point (Peter F. Miller). Point hopes someday to marry Elsie, but agrees to the scheme after hearing...
MISCASTING MARS TWO important roles. David Schrag as head jailer ("and assistant tormentor") Wilfrid Shadbolt valiantly stumbles and smirks his way through his path of comic relief, but the darkly cherubic actor simply looks too young to be taken seriously. A suitor of Phoebe and a conspirator with Point, his adolescent countenance distracts the audience from an otherwise entertaining effort. French as Elsie suffers from a corresponding problem; more than any of the other non-students in the show, French is just too old for her part of "a maid of 17." Possessing the production's finest voice...
...shoulders with an arm of a chair that was torn off." He remained in mortal danger until he managed, with the help of Purser Derickson, to convince the terrorists that he was not "diplomatic" but Army Reserve, with "a wife and a little baby girl." At that point, his tormentor underwent a dramatic change of mood. Declares Carlson: "He walked over to me, looked down and picked me up and put his arms around me, told me he loved me and that he was sorry, and that he never meant to kill me, that he had to beat...
...vulnerabilities and has deadly aim: "You're very experienced, but you're not a young man in bed. You make love the way you do because you have to." The poor chump replies by asking what else is wrong with him and by telling his tormentor: "I'd marry you today and conceive with you tonight if you wanted and we could...