Whether it is post-modern or not, " Love in a Dead Language " is pulled off with such unhinged elan by Siegel that it is also plain good fun, a clever, literate satire in which almost everything is both travestied and, strangely, loved by its author.
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It became so popular that it was travestied, including as " A Model Trilby; or, A Day or Two After Du Maurier " ( 1895 ) by Charles H . E . Brookfield and William Yardley, with music by Meyer Lutz, at the Opera Comique, produced by the retired Nellie Farren.
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It was received by the locals of Uxbridge with some scepticism; an ironmonger wrote upon a shovel " This is a spade " and stuck it outside his door; a witty baker travestied the title into " Spirit of Mischief, or Working Man's Window Breaker " and the parson warned his flock not to be led astray by the " inculcators of treason ".
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Philip Oakes of " The Sunday Telegraph " said that the film was " dazzling in its technical ingenuity ", while " Time " said that " this picture is a thriller exuberantly travestied . " Bosley Crowther, writing in " The New York Times " was less enthusiastic about the film, saying that it was " tediously apparent " that Bond was becoming increasingly reliant on gadgets with less emphasis on " the lush temptations of voluptuous females ", although he did admit that " Connery plays the hero with an insultingly cool, commanding air . " He saved his praises for other actors in the film, saying that " Gert Fr�be is aptly fat and feral as the villainous financier, and Honor Blackman is forbiddingly frigid and flashy as the latter's aeronautical accomplice ."
