To show business, the barter idea sounded as crackbrained as opening a theatre at the bottom of a well.
Commandant Jack Clitheroe (Clive Geraghty) of the Irish Citizen Army is a crackbrained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not to live for it.
Back in CNN's infancy, when he was dismissed as crackbrained and soon to be bankrupt, Ted Turner sensed the wonders to come.