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"Georgy Girl": what an amazing cast and

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what a surprisingly excellent movie that has aged very well, contrary to my expectations.
Charlotte Rampling shows her great promise: achingly desirable and beautiful---and one of the greatest bitches ever portrayed on celluloid (right up there w/Bette Davis in "Of Human Bondage").
James Mason is...well, he's non-pareil to me.
Lynn Redgrave gives a sensitive performance in a very difficult role that a lesser actress could have made melodramatic or cutesy.
And that brings me to the weak point: Alan Bates. He has always seemed a bit...effeminate to me. Something about the over the top eye make-up and that sibillant in his voice. Now, he's "cutesy," and that's too bad. See Michael Caine in "Alfie" for the same character done by a master.

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Alan Bates - edta 04:09:28 02/21/05 (2)
It's been a long time. I don't remember noticing that. He was gay?
- Not gay in the movie, but he acted quite - tinear 04:21:40 02/21/05 (1)
  effeminate, imo. That seemed to be his personality because he took it into King of Hearts, and that D. H. Lawrence disaster he was in with Oliver Reed, "Women in Love."
  That movie is (in)famous for having one of the most ugly women of all filmdom in a starring romantic role...
  - Interesting, what I remember about... - Harmonia 21:47:18 02/22/05 (0)
    ...Women In Love is Reed and Bates wrestling nude in the firelight. There were women in this film?
    Bates was a female hearthrob in the 60's and 70's, the thinking woman's sex symbol.

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