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...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 »

...CULDESAC, an inventive exercise in macabre slapstick by Polish Director Roman Polanski, looks like Part 2 of a projected trilogy of terror that began with Repulsion. This time around, Polanski plays his ghoulish games on a desolate North Sea island whose sole inhabitants are a half-mad old fool (Donald Pleasence), his hot-blooded young wife (Francoise Dorleac) and two unexpected nighttime visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 2, 1966 | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...CuldeSac. Roman Polanski, 33, is the Paris-born Pole who three years ago captured an international audience with a precocious thriller called Knife in the Water. Knife in hand, this switchbloc Hitchcock then went West and persuaded British producers to finance a small masterpiece of menace called Repulsion. His third film, also made in England, is a jittery-tittery comedy of terrors in which Polanski hones his slapstick to a razor-edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Razor-Edged Slapstick | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

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