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But given how much William Gow is depicted as a petty fascist, one could readily believe he’d align himself with these quirkier aspects of the British Right. I’m not sure whether this film’s writers, Leo Dalrymple and Donald Bull, adapting a play by Bruno Frank and with humorist James Bridie credited for “Anglo-Scottish adaptation,” intended a reference to Mosley’s party. Gow also has designs for higher office - he’s hoping that he will be the first Prime Minister of an independent Scottish parliament - and when he’s not actually running the town he spends endless hours practicing the speeches he plans to give when he campaigns for that office as a member of the “New Party.” There was actually a short-lived “New Party” in Britain in the early 1930’s - it was organized by Oswald Mosley before he “outed” himself and founded the British Union of Fascists, and it attracted some pretty high-powered intellectuals, notably author Lytton Strachey, but never amounted to much as a national force. Gow has built a city hall that looks more like a church than a government building - indeed, I suspect that Korda had a standing set of the front of a church that they used for this film - and within it he runs the meetings of the local city council with an iron hand, pushing through the agenda items he supports and not letting the ones he doesn’t come to a vote at all, sort of like Mitch McConnell. Though the film’s ostensible stars were Vivien Leign and Rex Harrison, the real central character is Provost William Gow (Cecil Parker) - a “provost” in this case is the Scottish equivalent of a mayor and Gow is the provost of Baikie (pronounced “Bakey”), a small village on the west coast of Scotland.

Movie storm in a teacup movie#

Last night I ran Charles and I the fourth movie in the Vivien Leigh boxed set I’d got from American Movie Classics many years ago, a 1937 Alexander Korda production called Storm in a Teacup that turned out to be a quite funny British screwball comedy and not as much a respite from all the political coverage as I’d hoped for, since the movie’s central character turned out to be a local version of Donald Trump. Copyright © 2020 by Mark Gabrish Conlan.Strangelove Or, How I Learned to Stop Worryin. The Beatles 'Live' in Munich, Germany, June 24, 19.Storm in a Teacup (Victor Saville Productions, Lon.Nightfall (Copa Productions, Columbia, copyright 1.Anatomy of Pop: The Music Explosion (ABC-TV Produc.Puccini: Turandot (RAI Torino, February 25, 1969).

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