《The California Kid (TV Movie 1974)》Storyline
The main characters drawn together in a misconceived love riangle in the corrupt, pleasure-seeking world outside the cabaret were:Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli in a bravura, career-defining performance), a flamboyant, amoral and effervescent American singer/performerBrian Roberts (Michael York), Sally""s bisexual boarding house tenant - a Britisher and English language teacherMaximilian von Heune (Helmut Griem), a homosexual German playboy-baron[In the original mid-1960s Broadway production version, he main characters were an American writer named Cliff Bradshaw and 19 year-old English cabaret singer Sally Bowles - reversed nationalities in the film.He then described he picture""s theme, based upon divine inspiration from 3,000 years earlier - in fact, DeMille was making a semi-political and propagandistic statement referring to the present time""s Cold War Era pitting the Soviets (the Egyptians) against the freedom-loving Americans (the Hebrews):The theme of this picture is whether men are to be ruled by God""s law, or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator like Rameses." They stood at he back of the theatre and watched the concluding scene of the screening of the B-western filmThe Telegraph Trail (1933)(starring John Wayne and Marceline Day).Our pain becomes their power," and he found out that the professor had known his parents.Soon after, there were fears that Sirius Black had entered Hogswart Castle, and the building was more fully secured just in case, but there were no further signs of his presence.Wagstaff: It isn""t, eh? Well, I""ll nip that in the bud.How about coming along and having a nip yourself?Frank: Anything further, Father?Wagstaff: Anything further, Father? That can""t be right.