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The shapes we take don't fit the games you play
"Peter had succeeded in getting his pipe to draw, and, with both hands in his trouser-pockets, was observing the actors in the drama with an air of pleased detachment."
—Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (1937)
"Well, now you have me. It's that thing called charm. Without it, there is a not particularly personable, slightly skinny gent in an old loose tweed jacket and trousers with a patch on the seat and tortoise-rimmed glasses, pulling on a blunt pipe. With it, there is Leslie Howard."
—Ruth Rankin, "Leslie Howard – Perennial Charmer" (1936)
I still can't believe Busman's Honeymoon was filmed in the UK in 1940 when Leslie Howard was still alive and didn't star him. Every now and then I consider subjecting myself to it because I imagine Robert Newton was an ideal Frank Crutchley and then I remember everything else I have ever read or heard about it and I just re-read the novel.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (1937)
"Well, now you have me. It's that thing called charm. Without it, there is a not particularly personable, slightly skinny gent in an old loose tweed jacket and trousers with a patch on the seat and tortoise-rimmed glasses, pulling on a blunt pipe. With it, there is Leslie Howard."
—Ruth Rankin, "Leslie Howard – Perennial Charmer" (1936)
I still can't believe Busman's Honeymoon was filmed in the UK in 1940 when Leslie Howard was still alive and didn't star him. Every now and then I consider subjecting myself to it because I imagine Robert Newton was an ideal Frank Crutchley and then I remember everything else I have ever read or heard about it and I just re-read the novel.
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Do you have a preferred current casting?
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I hadn't given it much thought before this afternoon! Rewatching Chariots of Fire (1981) after my first vaccine shot made me think of Nigel Havers, but that doesn't help much in 2021. I haven't seen him outside of a supporting role in Pride (2014) and occasional appearances on Tumblr, but I am considering Freddie Fox; he's got the sleek fair hair and he isn't quite conventionally handsome and he's in his thirties by now. (Laurence Fox apparently went full UKIP while I wasn't looking and is out of the running.) Johnny Flynn has a wonderful angular face, but not in the right directions; John Heffernan could get away with the line about having a silly face, but he might actually be good-looking; I'm not sure Edward Hogg, as much as I love his pointiness, would function as a blond. I feel desperately out of touch with current actors, even more so after this past year when I couldn't just drop in and out of theaters. Nobody has impressed me recently as all nerves and nose.
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