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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time there is only one person in the culdesac, a newly successful English movie star named Annabel Chris topher. Though neither pretty ("a peaky face and mousey hair") nor clever ("a deep core of stupidity that thrives on the absence of a looking-glass"), she projects well-bred sexiness on the screen. In the hands of Luigi Leopardi, a chimerical Roman director, she becomes "the English Lady-Tiger." The public image is painstakingly built up by the movie company, and inevitably it begins to seep into Annabel's psyche. Her husband Frederick, an intelligent, surly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women's Way With Love And Death: More Than Female Savagery | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...CULDESAC. A comedy of terrors with Donald Pleasence playing a flabby old fool of a husband to Françoise Dorléac's snippy little chippy who lusts for excitement-and finds it when a mobster-on-the-lam (Lionel Slander) staggers into their home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 30, 1966 | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...CULDESAC. A comedy of terrors with Donald Pleasence playing a flabby old fool of a husband to Francoise Dorleac's snippy little chippy who lusts for excitement-and finds it when a mobster-on-the-lam (Lionel Stander) staggers into their home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 23, 1966 | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...CULDESAC. A strong contender for the most bizarre movie of 1966, this jittery comedy of terrors describes in bloody detail what happens when a mobster-on-the-lam (Lionel Stander) becomes the uninvited house guest of a flabby old fool (Donald Pleasence) and his swinging young wife (Francoise Dorleac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 16, 1966 | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...CULDESAC. A strong contender for the most bizarre movie of 1966, this jittery comedy of terrors describes in bloody detail what happens when a mobster-on-the-lam (Lionel Stander) becomes the uninvited house guest of a flabby old fool (Donald Pleasence) and his swinging young wife (Françhise Dorl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 9, 1966 | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

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