Part comedy, part coming of age drama, it remains revered by a wide variety of audiences and critics. The Graduateis a classic film that stands the test of time, and remains revered as a classic. The film was first released in theaters in 1967 (note that this image is NOT from Criterion's Blu-ray and does not reflect the image quality of the release).

Robinson’s daughter! Before long, all hell breaks loose and Ben finds himself facing a personal crisis of sorts, trying to win Elaine back despite the opposition of her parents and her return to school. The two begin an affair of sorts, but things become all the more complicated when Ben finds himself attracted to Elaine (Ross), who also happens to be Mrs. Robinson (Bancroft), the sexy wife of his father’s business partner (Hamilton). Nervous and uncertain about his future, including graduate school and career choices, he contemplates his options and is seduced by Mrs. In The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock (Hoffman) is a young man returning home to California after earning a degree from a university on the East Coast. The film had previously been released on Blu-ray Disc by MGM/20th Century Fox and StudioCanal.

The musical score is composed by Dave Grusin, with songs by Simon and Garfunkel. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, and Murray Hamilton. Talking of bookends regresses me to childhood and holiday trips from Gateshead to my grandma and granddad’s bungalow in Reighton Gap, North Yorkshire.ĭuring the odyssey south we’d repeat play Simon & Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits on an eight-track cartridge player in my dad’s Ford Cortina.The Graduate,directed by Mike Nichols, was originally released in theaters in 1967. I decided I’m going to display classic literature between the bookends, an unwanted consequence of Karen refusing to let me undertake my original idea of exhibiting Viz annuals on the fireplace mantle. As a result, tonight I’m going to ask online retail god Amazon if he/she can recommend anything more suitable. That particular shop’s stock of bookends weren’t quite the style I sought nevertheless I thought it an inspired decoration. Biblelots that have had their day in the sun, which will retire gracefully to my patio table.Īn idea I got from a quaint home furnishings store in Ilkley. Books purchased not only with a view to read, but an ornamental display to replace the candles that currently reside on the fireplace. Two tomes, along with a couple of as yet unbought epitomes, I intend to store between the mantelpiece bookends I’m currently looking to acquire. The reading matter benevolently purchased for me by my wee missus the literary classics ‘Of Mice & Men’ and ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. While in Ilkley, my wife Karen treat me to a gifts of two books. Ok, I admit it was hopeless, but you try padding out a blog with a minimum of 500 words on a daily basis…… It’s not chuffing easy I can tell you…….Oh, and can you in Mansfield pull your flies up please, or the man of folklore strolling Ilkley Moor without his hat won’t be the only one risking problems from exposure. See what I did there?…… Madame Tussaud waxing lyrical and getting on people’s wick….

Over-bearing platitudes that reportedly got on her audiences wick.

A renown that attracted visits from the likes of ‘The Origin of Species’ author Charles Darwin, and latterly French artist Madame Tussaud.Ī big advocate of the health-affirming qualities of the spa water, Mrs Tussaud was often heard waxing lyrical about Ilkley. Like medicinal compound’s efficacies to the eponymous character in The Scaffold’s 1960s refrain ‘Lily the Pink’, in the 17th and 18th centuries the town’s spa water gained a reputation for it’s healing properties. Renowned for a colloquial folk song about a man risking death from exposure by strolling Ilkley Moor without a hat. Ilkley, West Yorkshire’s spa town with it’s core of Victorian architecture, quaint stores, Betty’s Tearoom and the official start of the Dales Way – A 84 mile hike over the Dales to Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria.Ī town of sharp incline, or decline depending on your outlook, sitting on the southern bank of the River Wharfe. Accompanied by my spouse and doubts about the government’s Brexit strategy, we journeyed 17 miles by trusty steed (well, trusty Vauxhall Astra) north west of our bustling metropolis. Wednesday 6th June – I had a sojourn to Ilkley this morning/early afternoon.

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