"Kusum Dola" Episode #1.377 (TV Episode)

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" He asks hat they be charged to Horace Hardwick, Room 404.After Jerry leaves, he flower salesman wonders to his assistant (Lucille Ball in an early role) about how Miss Tremont"s Italian dress designer Alberto Beddini (Erik Rhodes) will react: "I wonder what Mr.Romantic entanglements jeopardize heir larcenous plans.This treasured comic film masterpiece, a pinnacle of sophisticated romantic comedy, beautifully epitomizes the "Lubitsch Touch" with its flair for pre-Hays Code sexual comedy, witty innuendo-filled, suggestive dialogue, orchestrated grace and charming style, subtle use of details, and sardonic humor.Clipton learns that the Japanese commandant blames Nicholson (still in the oven) for delays in the bridge construction: "Because of your colonel"s stubbornness, we are far behind schedule.It is one of the greatest romantic earjerkers/weepers of all time, with a very downbeat ending.Lean"s film is a simple but realistically-honest, unsentimental, self-told social melodrama of the quiet desperation involved in an illicit, extra-marital love affair between two married, middle-class individuals over seven weekly meetings, mostly against the backdrop of a railway station.After they have left for the Tower, the cook remarks to the maid that the "master" frequently keeps telling the "mistress" that she is ill, although she doesn"t appear to have anything wrong with her.[Collapse Section]