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...happen, that the unbearable exists so that man may bear it, and that life is a problem to which the only solution is death. Rarely have these inexorabilities been brought home to a modern audience with more telling force than in this masterly revival. In the leading roles, Mildred Dunnock, Carrie Nye and Joyce Ebert deserve the compliment of the truth, that they are worthy of the playwright. If there is a more perfect method for re-creating this great tragedy than Director Cacoyannis has displayed, the difference may not be worth discovering...
...hopes to stay on for free. Craftily suspicious of freeloaders, Flora keeps the handsome young man at one villa's distance while she rifles his field pack to learn that he is 34 and constructs mobiles. A witchy visitor of Flora's vintage, Vera Ridgeway Condotti (Mildred Dunnock), warns her that Chris has been nicknamed "Angel of Death," having been the questionable companion of several old ladies at the time of their demise. Bent on one last fleshly fling, Flora decides to seduce Chris...
Westinghouse Presents (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Mildred Dunnock, Nancy Wickwire, Margaret Leighton, Roy Poole, Ralph Bellamy and Kevin McCarthy in a drama about a woman's readjustment to life after her discharge from a mental hospital...
...rich Perpetua family is a representative tyranny. Each member feels free to call a spade a spade, thus turning it into a hatchet. The hatchet is then buried in the skull and heart of a loved one. All are good at this bloody game, but Mother (Mildred Dunnock) is champion. To Mother, domestics, children and husbands are lower orders of nature. To God, whom she seems to despise as a greater snob than herself ("God is like a very famous person to whom an introduction is impossible"), she says, "Do I have to come at you and cut you down...
...city as the heroine sees it, to suggest the horror in the eye of the beholder. What's more, Composer Aaron Copland has written some graceful background music, and the three principals do as well as anybody could with the script in hand. As to the script, Actress Dunnock has the last word in the last scene of the film. "What," she inquires in a blank confusion that her audience will wholly share, "what has happened...