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PRIEST OF LOVE is undoubtedly the longest two-hour movie ever made. Billed as razzle-'em, dazzle-'em intimate portrait of D.H.Lawrence (lan McKellen) and his German wife. Freida (Janet Suzman), the movie is simply a series of bangs that end with a whimper. Director Christopher Miles has apparently confused action with sex, character with caricature. With Priest of Love, he achieves the impossible. He reduces the pathos of Lawrence last years, spent in exile and pain, to a cheap thrill. Lawrence and Freida leave England soon after the British censor. Herbert G. Muskett (John Gielgud) publicly burns available copies...
...work hard to win. In a facile attempt to provide concrete visual proof of Abrahams' Judaism, director Hugh Hudson cast Cross, whose dark complexion and hooked nose reflect the stereotypical conception of a Jew. The problems don't end there; Cross badly overacts. It is the desire to show' em all that lends fire to his eye and wings to his feet, granted, but must he appear quite so fanatical? His zealotry, his appearance, and his heated but vague claims of discrimination constitute almost the entire treatment of the issue of anti-Semitism in the film...
...Rough 'em up, David...
...There was a Knight, a worthy for the chaffre./ He lovede gold, and was a Pornografer...) and Shakespeare (To draw, or not to draw,--that is the question:--/ Whether 'tis safer in the player to take/ The awful risk of skinning for a straight,/ Or, standing pat, to raise 'em all the limit/ And thus, by bluffing, get in...) abound...
Coach Karyn Altman could only shake her head. "They must grow 'em big out west," she sighed...