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Rocketeer, 1991 |
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In the fantastic thriller "The
Rocketeer" Mr. Dalton played not so large but very interesting role of
German spy, who was busy with the searching of secret weapon, which could
transform every man into a flying rocket. 
This spy is very talanted: he is "Number 3"
in Hollywood. But his main care is the magnificent jet-motor. It's amusingly
to watch those moments in the movie, where Timothy shows his hero during the
filming. It's the common knowledge that the prototype for Nevill Sinclair
was the famous hollywood actor Erol Flynn, who, probably, sympathized with
Nazies. And here is the photo of Erol in the part of Maylus Gendyn in the
screen adaptation of "The Prince and the Beggar" in 1937. Timothy burlesques
the actor's skills of those years brilliantly. The demon, the play -are the
base of his character! But at once - illiberality and a little bit the beetle.
The scene, where Dalton's hero talks to young
extra player, who had respect to wanted apparatus, about his "love" with the
help of banal phrases from well-known movies of those years, was done
admirably. One gesture or one look transforms lover-boy Nevill into the awful
and extremely unpleasant personality. Do you remember, how Dalton's Sinclair
picked his teeth without a toothpick but with the help of his finger? 
At the end of the movie, where viewer waits
edgily for the moment of evil's punishment, in answer to the indignant words
of heroine "Everything was lie with you!", Timothy answers: "It was not a lie,
Jenny, it was acting!". One moment later his Siclaire will explode in the
night sky under the Hollywood hills, but we will remember for a long time the
peripetias of inelaborate plot and repeat: "Yes, really, this is ACTING!"
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