Tony Williams writes:
"Don, The title is LADYBIRD. I guess if we are looking at the British
experience and a society which has a far more cogent understanding of
class than the U.S.A. then many of the Loach-Garnett television collabor-
ations (CATHY COME HOME, UP THE JUNCTION, LEEDS UNITED, THE BIG FLAME)
could broaden the choice.
  Also, since "golden oldies" have come up,what about KIND HEARTS AND
CORONETS, John Baxter's THE COMMON TOUCH, THE SHIPBUILDERS?
Class issues also figure indirectly in American films as "structured
absences" so I guess the list could include more."
 
Let me add Peter Medak's THE RULING CLASS, with a tour-de-force performance
by Peter O'Toole as an upper-class twit who thinks he's Jesus (Q: "How do
you know you're God?"  A:"Well, when I was praying, I realized I was
talking to myself.")
 
Then he goes *really* mad.
 
There's also the family Marxist butler, who excoriates his bosses while
serving them tea.
 
--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN