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| | BEDLAM: ASH: Rope |
 | | "Indeed, the only bright spot is Anthony Head as the arty Rupert Cadell, a crippled war veteran who turns on the precocious pair after picking up a rather pathetic clue, and who interrupts an act of rampant homosexual groping with which the director vainly seeks to beef up proceedings. |
 | | Head is the man in televisions' famous Gold Blend ad and, to signal a change in direction, he has a new hairdo, a walking stick, and effete accent and a limp--everything, in fact, but an eye-patch and a parrot on his shoulder. |
 | | "The central character of Rope is Rupert Cadell, the elegant, witty, brooding war hero (Anthony Head): his limp is a reminder of the mass killings that had been forced on people only a decade or so earlier, and his war reminiscences set the lurid plot in a harsh moral context." (complete text) |
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