Watched this earlier, a 90-minute drama about the affair between Tony Hancock and John Le Mesurier's wife Joan which ended with the former's suicide in Australia. Not bad. Included one incongruously funny moment where, in the midst of a domestic fight, Hancock falls over clutching a bottle of brandy -- twice -- and on both occasions passes out but still doesn't spill a drop of liquid from the container.
A couple of things seemed a bit odd about it. The John Le Mesurier character was wet beyond belief (was he like that in real life?) -- when his wife told him of the affair she's having with his best friend, he murmured: "This must be awful for you," which is kind of taking the stiff upper lip thing somewhat too far. Later, there was a bit where Joan, having left Hancock due to his drunkenness and physical abuse, is sitting in her parents' house watching TV, and Hancock appears on the screen being interviewed on a chat show and looking tremendously witty. In that moment, she just suddenly decides to go back to him, even though he's almost completely wrecked her existence with his horrible treatment of her.
I don't know much about Hancock's oeuvre, but the routines of his which featured in the film -- if they were indeed drawn from his own material -- were pretty unamusing. I did, however, like the the sequence where Stott frantically psyches himself up before going onstage. "This is it! Come on, you wanker!"
A couple of things seemed a bit odd about it. The John Le Mesurier character was wet beyond belief (was he like that in real life?) -- when his wife told him of the affair she's having with his best friend, he murmured: "This must be awful for you," which is kind of taking the stiff upper lip thing somewhat too far. Later, there was a bit where Joan, having left Hancock due to his drunkenness and physical abuse, is sitting in her parents' house watching TV, and Hancock appears on the screen being interviewed on a chat show and looking tremendously witty. In that moment, she just suddenly decides to go back to him, even though he's almost completely wrecked her existence with his horrible treatment of her.
I don't know much about Hancock's oeuvre, but the routines of his which featured in the film -- if they were indeed drawn from his own material -- were pretty unamusing. I did, however, like the the sequence where Stott frantically psyches himself up before going onstage. "This is it! Come on, you wanker!"
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