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...birth of Man Singh, a son of the proud Thakore clan in India's northern Agra district, a Brahman priest predicted that he would one day grow up to "become a terror to kings." But as a boy Man Singh was remarkable only for his mild and conscientious disposition. He took no part or interest in the traditional blood feuds between Brahman and Thakore that raged constantly in the Rajput countryside west of the Taj Mahal. He clothed himself in the handspun cloth of humility known as Khadi to show his allegiance to Gandhi, and in hawk-nosed, dignified...
...mountain mothers spread their olympian "dinner-on-the-ground" in the groves of scrub oaks around the graveyard. The kids darted among the weathered tombstones and their rednecked fathers gathered to smoke and discuss politics and family ties. The Adams clan was distinguished by red ribbons, the Webbs wore yellow, and green ribbons identified the Crafts. By high noon, 600 cousins were on hand...
When the entire clan is gathered, Mr. Hobbs continues such chores as garbage disposal, and evenings finds it impossible to concentrate on a book against theoretical talk that outrages his practical intelligence. "Dollars are only symbols," he hears. "Wealth is the natural resources of a country. . ." Running a finger under his shirt collar, his voice trembling, Mr. Hobbs explodes: "It was dollars that bought that beef tonight that you all gobbled up so cheerfully. It was dollars that bought that bottle of gin that disappeared before dinner. Nobody ever handed me any natural resources, and I never paid a grocery...
Producer Disney was almost as true in story as in style to the old Scots legend. Rob Roy (Richard Todd) is chief of Clan MacGregor, A.D. 1715. He loves a High land lassie, Helen Mary (Glynis Johns), but hesitates to marry her as long as he is fighting the English. Against them he wages a brilliant guerrilla war that finally discredits the British Secretary of State for Scotland, the cruel Duke of Montrose (Michael Gough), and brings a true Scottish patriot, the Duke of Argyll (James Robertson Justice) back to power. In the end, Rob, his bagpiper and his sword...
What most wins the heart in Rob Roy, more even than the beauty of its backgrounds, is its modesty. The gathering of the clan for Rob Roy's wedding is, for instance, no massive conclave, but a nice little country get-together of 30 or 40 people. The famed battle of Sheriffmuir is not mounted as a mighty spectacle, with thousands of warriors arrayed on either side, but is shown as it must have been fought: with a gaggle of half-armed crofters opposing a fairly small troop of British regulars. Producer Disney seems to have had an idea...