Squire
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I think that probably had all to do with the performance of Charles Laughton as the haughty
squire
, Sir Humphrey Pengallan.
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Think of the country clergyman or
squire
collecting his beetles or fossils, like Charles Darwin, for example, or, the hired help of a nobleman, like Joseph Priestley, who was the literary companion to the Marquis of Lansdowne when he discovered oxygen.
As his
squire
Sancho Panza explains to him time and again, these aren’t giants; they are merely windmills.
This unconventional meta-awareness created philosophical complexity, as the knight and his
squire
ponder the meaning of their story.
As the
squire
who is the full-figured mastermind behind a gang of murderous wreckers on the Cornish coast, Laughton sports the latest dandyish fashions, a false nose, false eyebrows which almost have lives of their own, a carefully coifed comb-over, a piggish over-bite and line readings that would make Bette Davis at her most mannered envious.
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