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Limb & Spinal Major 
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TITLE |
Raging Moon, The (1970) |
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ALT__TITLE |
Long Ago
Tomorrow |
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DISABILITY |
Limb
Paraplegia Polio |
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NOTES |
You're
twenty minutes into the film before McDowell collapses with an
unnamed disease. When asked in hospital what is wrong with
him he says he can't remember the long name. (Supposition
is that it is a polio like virus) The film is basically concerned
only with a romance between two people in wheelchairs.
It is pedestrian and plodding, badly acted and a clichéd,
ill-informed script. |
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You'll
understand very little about what it means to be plonked |
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suddenly
into a wheelchair except to feel a burning |
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resentment
against the world and be rude to everyone. (Mary |
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McDonnel
does this much better in 'Passion Fish'). McDowell |
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voluntarily
goes to a home for the disabled where most of the |
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occupants
appear to spend their time playing cards or chess, |
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and doing
handicrafts. Some weak criticism is made of the |
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sort of
people who patronise such establishments and of the |
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The film
spends much time on the supposed difficulties the |
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pair have
kissing while in wheelchairs and the arrangements |
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to be made
to get into the same bed. This may be helpful since so many
other films ignore this aspect.
It also stars the
singer, raconteur Michael Flanders who was a wheelchair user. He was
most famous as part of the team Flanders and Swan.
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