The Ruling Class
I remember watching The Ruling Class on TV as a kid and being amused by the sight of Peter O’Toole hanging off a full-size cross in a baronial living room, playing an aristo convinced he is the second coming of Jesus Christ. I also remember being bored by the rest of the film. Fast forward some decades to last week and I had the same experience all over again. On paper it sounds like a great idea. Get O’Toole at his most flamboyant to play a lunatic who inherits the ancestral seat of the earldom of Gurney after his father dies in a bizarre accident involving a noose and a ballerina’s tutu. And … Read more