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Emulating such meticulous metaphysicians of suspense as Graham Greene and John Le Carré, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes tried to turn a routine story about the last personal and professional adventures of a gentleman robber into an existential parable. Sadly, the material is too airy to bear the weight of...
Drama of the Decades. Packard's prevailing theme invokes one of Newton's more familiar laws. "The primary drama of recent decades," he says, "is that women have been acting and men have been reacting." Mostly, he finds, women have been acting up. To underscore his point, Packard...
∙An individual, like a people, like a continent, dies out when he shrinks from both rash plans and rash acts, when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within it, takes refuge there.
Fractured French. From Inspector Clouseau to Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a journey from comedy to tragedy, from fractured French to utter silence. As John Singer, a deaf-mute silverware engraver living in a small Dixie town, Arkin moves through a gallery of Southern gothic...
For a time, Singer tries to make a lasting impression on his fellow sufferers, but one by one they rebuff him. When McCann dies, Singer, by now robbed not only of his senses but his sensibilities, takes his own life. Only when he is gone do his erstwhile friends realize...