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"Cleaver. Cleaver. Chop. Chop. First the mom and then the pop. Then we'll get the pretty girl. We'll get her right between the curl.". Hywel Bennett stars as Martin Durnley, a rich but damaged Oxford University drop-out with a hatred of his banker stepfather, played by Frank Finlay. His mum babies the boy, a consequence of Martin's elder brother, a Down Syndrome sufferer (or 'Mongoloid' - or even 'mentally backward' as they say here), being in full-time care, and the doctors having warned Martin's parents not to have any more children - just to be on the safe side. Too late: troubled mummy's boy Martin, with his cuddly toys and penchant for smashing his own reflection, appears to have proved the doctors misgivings.
Movie rating: 7.0 / 10 (2305)
Directed by: Leo Marks - Roy Boulting - Roger Marshall
Writer credits: Leo Marks - Roy Boulting
Cast: Hayley Mills - Hywel Bennett - Russell Napier - Billie Whitelaw - Robin Parkinson
AKA: I nervi a pezzi
