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There is a quick cutaway to the audience during the 'cat racing' scene. The commentary says nothing but that is surely Mr Bernard himself in the dress circle, laughing at his old friend O'Toole pretending to be him.
It is difficult to describe Jeffrey Bernard to anybody who has not read his deeply self-effacing, sentimental and grossly politically incorrect essays. Suffice to say he spent much of his life and all of his limited cash drinking in two pubs in Soho and at the races, and left a trail of doomed marriages and relationships. Much of his humour derived from the complex mixture of fear, loathing, admiration and pity that womankind generated in him.
A good buy.
Watching Peter O'Toole live the life of Bernard on stage is a riveting,rollocking two hours of laughs,loves & pathos, as you witness the "Suicide notes in weekly instalments" that was his life. This is not a film of the play, but a filming of the play,performed at The Old Vic, though it transcends theatre,as Peter O'Toole Plays the part he was born to. (He even looks uncannily like Bernard!)
One would not neccessarily have wanted Bernard as a friend,& certainly not as a drinking partner, but to spend an evening in "his" presence with this DVD is a joy. It is one which bears repeated viewing. Pour your self a drink & relax in Bernards' company.... But Just the one, mind you....
This is a perfect combination of a talented cast and a wonderful script. Read more
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