Get you a man who looks at you the way young Charlie looks at the Portland Vase

From Make Me An Offer (1954), Peter Finch’s first film in which he plays Charlie, an antiques dealer specializing in Wedgewood. Not a well-known movie, but it’s on Youtube, at least for now. Here is the young Charlie (Richard O’Sullivan) in the British Museum, having his first glance at the love of his life, the Portland Vase.

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About Uncomely and Broken

I am a classicist in Sewanee, Tennessee.
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