When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest in a shy, plain housewife, everyone is baffled and fascinated.When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest in a shy, plain housewife, everyone is baffled and fascinated.When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest in a shy, plain housewife, everyone is baffled and fascinated.
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- TriviaBrown make-up was applied to Jacques Bergerac in a vain attempt to make him look Indian. The incongruous French accent just adds to the confusion.
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[last lines]
Himself - Host: I suppose you're wondering how I escaped. Fortunately, my captor dropped a stitch at a crucial moment. In the event you may have missed a few Freudian overturns of our story, I should like to offer a brief explanation. Irene Cole was a compulsive knitter with a Madame Defarge complex. Howard Cole was an extrovert, who suffered from a regressive libido, an Oedipus complex, schizophrenia, and an extremely low sales resistance. Prince Burhan's sports car was obviously the symbol for his mother. He always wanted to drive her mad, and the accident wasn't caused by defective brakes at all. The automobile was psychosomatic, it has since undergone analysis and is now well-adjusted. I hope this makes everything clear. And now before I return, my sponsor will indulge in a bit of symbolism of his own. For which I can offer *no* explanation.
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Himself - Host: I hope you enjoyed that, I know Freud would have. Join us again next week when we shall be back with another story. Good night.
- SoundtracksFuneral March of a Marionette
Written by Charles Gounod
Set in a high-class Palm Beach resort, the story has Jacques Bergerac as a renowned playboy who takes a romantic interest in a seemingly plain, shy married woman whose husband is neglecting her. The script effectively blends in the story developments with sequences of the other characters marveling over this odd development. It creates a believable atmosphere of life among the 'idle rich' while also arousing the viewer's own curiosity about what is going on. The story is narrated by one of the characters who is writing a book about the playboy, and this device works well.
Bergerac is well-suited to his role, and Leora Dana gives quite a good performance in an unusual kind of leading role, as the plain-Jane housewife. Her make-up artist(s) also deserves praise for the effective change in her appearance between the beginning and the end, which also helps to make the story believable.
One of the things that made the series so interesting was that you were never quite sure what tone an episode would take. This one holds onto the strengths of the show, and makes things interesting by adding a slightly new mood of its own.
- Snow Leopard
- Mar 20, 2006
Details
- Runtime30 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1