The character of "Mr. Maul" is a gift for an actor. It also adds an amusing extra dimension to the play. I loved the Donald Sinden /Gwen Watford version, played on stage by all with such entertaining fervour , in a great set. "Mr. Maul" was there played by Julian Fellows : delightfully " creepy " ! 😊. James Bolam, here, did the role justice .😊👍. 🇬🇧😊👍🌹⭐💙🎭🇬🇧 ,
Peter Wyngarde: "Alright - lend me your sordid little comb and I will." (looks in mirror) "Good god, I look 98; in a few years time I'll be bald as a coot..." And just a few years later, as Jason King, he had almost as much hair as Jennie Linden's Daphne Stillington!
I loved seeing this production, although I wish there hadn't been so many cuts. I'd never seen it on television, but had seen it in the West End with Nigel Patrick playing Gary with all the charm of a cricket bat.
I see Peter Wildeblood adapted the play for television. Wildeblood was one of the men accused of homosexuality in 1954 along with Lord Montague of Beaulieu and Michael Pitt-Rivers. Three years later in 1957 the Wolfenden Report recommended the decrimilisation of homosexuality.
@@Test_Card_Tom Let's be fair : people tend to associate with others who are similar : this group are " theatricals " , after all. Please also see the Donald Sinden version : recommended ! 😊. 🇬🇧😊🌹🎭💙⭐🇬🇧
@@rosemariemann1719 Of course people tend to associate with others who are similar - but this production of Coward's play makes the characters carbon copies of each others mannerisms and speech - apart from the servant who was given an indeterminate foreign accent. Yes the Donald Sinden version is better probably because it was held in a setting (theatre) it was intended for?
Many thanks for posting. Anything with Peter Wyngarde in is always worth watching. Other than Eric Portman, no-one else had such a luxurious voice. 👍😀
James Bolan in his youth! All so wordy but all so captivating! Well done.
And
Thank you!
Well, this is a rare treat for a Sunday morning! Thank you so much! ❤
Thats how you played Coward back in 1964. Loved it. A period piece now.
I love Peter Wyngarde🤩 Oh, and a young James Bolam. I recognized him by his voice at first. 🙂
Just finished this one, Peter Wyngarde was an underated actor, although I do remember watching Department S & Jason King & course Flash Gordon 😁👍
The character of
"Mr. Maul" is a
gift for an actor.
It also adds an
amusing extra
dimension to the
play.
I loved the Donald
Sinden /Gwen Watford
version, played on stage
by all with such entertaining
fervour , in a great set.
"Mr. Maul" was there played
by Julian Fellows :
delightfully " creepy " ! 😊.
James Bolam, here, did
the role justice .😊👍.
🇬🇧😊👍🌹⭐💙🎭🇬🇧
,
Peter Wyngarde: "Alright - lend me your sordid little comb and I will." (looks in mirror) "Good god, I look 98; in a few years time I'll be bald as a coot..."
And just a few years later, as Jason King, he had almost as much hair as Jennie Linden's Daphne Stillington!
I loved seeing this production, although I wish there hadn't been so many cuts. I'd never seen it on television, but had seen it in the West End with Nigel Patrick playing Gary with all the charm of a cricket bat.
Thank you once again!!
Barbara Murray❤❤…and looking rather pneumatic in that low-cut number.
Brilliant....thank you
James Bolam definitely channeling Colin Wilson here.
Thank you so much!
Most excellent, thank you.
That smooth self-satisfied tone made its way into the character of Jason King.
Peter Wyngarde and Gloucester Bus Station.
Fabulous!
no this has not been available the dvd has Donald Sinden - this is a terrific cast
Elegant and efficient Joan Benham, too.
I miss the old RP.
who knew Peter Wyngarde could act?
"From the North" above the Granada logo, as if the north is a strange, faraway country.
Correct!
Wasn't even the North. "From the bit of the country a little further north than the Midlands" doesn't have the same ring to it.
@@jasejj Surely "a little farther north than the Midlands" IS the North!
@@supalew No it is not. Manchester and Leeds are as far from Berwick as Nottingham is from Southampton.
@@jasejj So, where does the North start? Be careful, you may be about to upset a few people.
the hair those girls had in those days.
I see Peter Wildeblood adapted the play for television. Wildeblood was one of the men accused of homosexuality in 1954 along with Lord Montague of Beaulieu and Michael Pitt-Rivers. Three years later in 1957 the Wolfenden Report recommended the decrimilisation of homosexuality.
You can't fool me: That's Austin Powers!
I wonder why the valet was cut?
Drainingly pompous, Coward might as well narrate it himself as literally everyone sounds like him
Coward knew his audience. Upper class and aspiring middle class which explains why all his characters all sound alike.
@@Test_Card_Tom
Let's be fair : people
tend to associate
with others who are
similar : this group are
" theatricals " , after all.
Please also see the
Donald Sinden version :
recommended ! 😊.
🇬🇧😊🌹🎭💙⭐🇬🇧
@@rosemariemann1719 Of course people tend to associate with others who are similar - but this production of Coward's play makes the characters carbon copies of each others mannerisms and speech - apart from the servant who was given an indeterminate foreign accent. Yes the Donald Sinden version is better probably because it was held in a setting (theatre) it was intended for?
Most people in the upper and middle classes talked like that in those days. Schools even offered elocution lessons so others could.
@rosemariemann1719 was a out to recommend that version, too: utterly brilliant.
Played far too camp to be believable.
We're not a world of Marlon Brando's ...
@ColtraneTaylor No, but compare this with the Donald Sinden production!
@@tomkent4656Donald Sinden is sickening in that production and makes Peter Wyngarde look like Olivier.
@ColtraneTaylor thank the gods!
@@alidabaxter5849couldn't disagree more: what a rich world of diverse tastes!
Petunia Winegum
In other quarters known as Petronella ..... an obnoxious luvvie who took a little orange juice with his breakfast vodka.
Never watched Coward before, Never will again. Thanks for posting this interesting piece of televisual archeology.
Noel Coward: start of the rot
Over acting at its worst !!