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Queequeg -- Friedrich von Ledebur in *Moby Dick* (1956)

Elinsky, Jacob -- Philip Seymour Hoffman in *25th Hour*

Zack -- Tom Waits in *Down By Law* (1986)

*On The Waterfront* ?

*Johnny Tremain* -- 1957 title role for Hal Stalmaster.

Quill -- James Remar in *The Phantom* (1996)

> BRIT -- Police income tax* > AMER -- The pad, shakedown, "on the pad" > > ...Money extorted from businesses by the police, especially to gain lax enforcement. (A barber who also functioned as a bookie, etc.) > > *...From "In come the police and you pay the tax." Verbatum from the 1979 film *The Human Factor* Sourced from a novel by Graham Greene, and scripted by Tom Stoppard.

Oyl, Nana -- Roberta Maxwell in *Popye* (1980)

...and script by Tom Stoppard, with a cast that included Nicol Williamson, Derik Jacobi, Richard Attenborough, Robert Morley and John Gielgud. Correct. Did not get the attention that that assembly of talent deserved, IMO. Eve's thread.

BRIT -- Police income tax* AMER -- The pad, shakedown, "on the pad" ...Money extorted from businesses by the police, especially to gain lax enforcement. (A barber who also functioned as a bookie, etc.) *...From "In come the police and you pay the tax."

Jagger, Jewel -- Courteney Cox in *Mr. Destiny* (1990)

*7.* Flashback some 8 years or so to when the agent was operating in South Africa, with a cover story as a magazine writer. The woman was active in anti-Apartheid efforts, as was the biological father of her son. He had asked some favors in getting her out of that zone, and was obligated for some favors in return. Back in the "present day" of the 1970s, his Department is visited by a South African police official who is belligerenty eager to arrest the wife and take her back. "If you want to f**k a black ****, why don't you go to a whorehouse in Swaziland? It's still a part of your so-called commonwealth." In other developments, the Security chief reviews all facts concerning the young office man who had died. (An in-house doctor had brought about this fatality, then covered it up as a natural-causes death, to be blamed on excessive drinking.) The Security man's report: "I think you killed the wrong man." The doctor's response: "Pity." The operative now tells everything to his wife, about what he did to bring about her freedom. "I've been a double agent for seven years". Sure now that he is close to arrest, he sends the wife and son off to his mother's home, with a story that they have argued and separated. Now he must get himself to safety.

deleated due to wrong )*&%^$& thread..My bad. Edited by: cmvgor on May 2, 2010 12:55 AM

duplicate deleated Edited by: cmvgor on May 1, 2010 7:24 PM

Freemantle, Mother Abigail -- Ruby Dee in *The Stand* (TV Miniseries)

Custer, Gen George Armstrong -- Richard Mulligan in *Little Big Man*

*6.* Droll, deadpan comedy of manners moments: An executive, after a weekend "shoot" at his estate, brings uncleaned, unplucked dead phesants to work as gifts for underlings who are in no position to refuse them and must feign gratitude. // A man makes a lunch date with an uncaring woman who doesn't keep the date. He has to make a verbal report to a superior after the lunch, so he has some office documents with him for a quick review. He is observed by a superior -- work materials out of the office and awaiting someone who doesn't show up. And this is a man already under suspicion for leaking department info. // An executive attends his daughter's wedding reception, meeting his dreaded ex-wife for the first time in years. He gets a phone call informing him that an underling has died suddenly -- the one who misbehaved with the office documents at lunchtime. Just as the executive departs, he manages to break one of the ex-wife's prized ceramic owls.

*5.* The former field man now working the London office: He had worked in South Africa, where he had met and married a beautiful tribal woman. He brought her and her son with him when he was promoted to the Admin. level. Home some 10 years now and they lived happily in a suburb. The lad has grown into a proper little Brit, and the man's mother considers the boy her grandson, although her son is not the boy's father biologically.

Vern -- Meat Loaf in *Motorama* (1991)

*4.* Lower-echelon humor: "I'm afraid the bottom's dropped out of the British Secrets market." Upper-echelon thinking: No publicity, no trials. "And we don't want the midnight departure, the plane out of the country, followed by the press conference in Moscow."

*Monster's Ball* ??

*Tom Thumb*

*W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings*

Paxton, Ron -- Charles Noland in *Wayne's World* (1992)

*3.* Opening credits image: A graphic of a telephone receiver with a frayed and useless cord. Closing credits background a silent telephone receiver swinging on it's cord. Themes of distance, regret, longing and loss. // Concerns at the top levels of the London office that there may be a leak. At first, minor things, like papers and briefcases being taken out by people who were supposedly just going to lunch. // Lower-echelon paranoia: Arriving home and learning that a new "electricity man" had done some work in the house today. Reasonalble to check the fuse box area to see if there was anything new (bug?) present in the house.