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TITLE |
Dream of Kings, A (1969) |
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DISABILITY |
General
Terminal |
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NOTES |
Quinn plays
a Greek-American living in Chicago but with no |
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apparent
means of subsistence except card games to |
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support his
wife and son. He drifts around and even chats up |
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the widow of
a baker who is now running the bakery on her |
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own. While
she becomes his mistress his wife carries the |
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burdens of
the family. But their seven year old son is dying |
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(we don't
know from what) and when the father learns this he |
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decides to
take him to Greece where the climate might bring |
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hope. Of
course he hasn't the money for the flight and he |
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can't win it
at card games. Eventually he fixes a dice game |
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but it's his
wife who provides the money by stealing from her |
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own mother.
Once in Greece he decides to stay there. |
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I've never
been fond of Quinn as an actor he really does play |
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all parts in
the same way. Inger Stevens is the best thing |
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going here
and you wonder why her character has anything to |
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do with
Quinn's. The son who is dying doesn't register that |
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much since
the film is really about the father. |
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At one of
the card games there is a blind black man sitting |
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