Michael Aldridge
1) Clockwise
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Description
Mr. Brian Stimpson ran his life, and everyone else's, by the clock. Then one day, the clock decided to strike back! On the day Stimpson is to give a major speech at a posh teacher's conference, he finds himself in a frantic cross-country chase filled with missed trains, confused cops, strange monks, odd old ladies and stolen clothes. Can Stimpson make up for precious lost time or is the entire world conspiring to make him late for the most important...
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Criterion collection volume 830
Description
"The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career that was the culmination of the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff--the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV's wayward son Prince Hal--here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace."--Container....