Also Close Encounters painted a compelling picture of planet Earth – the alien land I'm still trying to figure out to this day. Like every childhood favourite, it was a formative film, a gateway of sorts, opening out towards thornier, scarier, wilder views. I remember being especially struck by the scene in which Neary first encounters the extraterrestrials, when the power grid fails and the mailboxes start rattling and all the truck's clutter blows into the man's face.
That's probably why I never really liked the film's ending, when Neary is willingly led up the gangplank to the mothership. He's leaving the weird-looking mountain and the new friends he has made. He's leaving the backroads, the deserts, his family, the forests. He's leaving the untidy homes, messy cars and all those unpredictable people – and having sat through the film, I could never understand why he would. Because what was all that if not a comical abundance of riches?
This may worth something:
Obituary: David Collings – Doctor Who actor and stalwart of the National and RSC
By then, his theatre profile had begun to grow, helped by a spell at the Oxford Playhouse and his making much of the underwritten Quilpe in TS Eliot's The Cocktail Party at Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by and starring Alec Guinness in 1968.
The following year, he was back in Oxford to play Dauphin to Nyree Dawn Porter's St Joan. He made his West End debut in John Chapman's Move Over Mrs Markham at the Vaudeville Theatre alongside Dinah Sheridan in 1972.
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