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...Academy Award (for Women in Love), Jackson can scarcely be called a revelation. But in certain scenes-when, for example, she orders Bob about in a voice filled with self-abnegation, or when she stands depleted before her "rival"-she surpasses any previous part. As for Peter Finch, this versatile and deeply intelligent performer has never had so fine an hour and a half. In his portrayal, Hirsh betrays no gesture of queerness or bathos. He is merely a man whose affliction is not homosexuality but the tradition that abhors...
...young bisexual designer, Bob (Murray Head), finds himself the fulcrum of a sexual teeterboard. On one side sits his lover, a Jewish doctor named Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch). At the opposite end is his mistress, the haggard divorcee Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson...
...only divided personality of Sunday Bloody Sunday. There have always been two John Schlesingers. The high Schlesinger is the consummate actor's director. Julie Christie has never fulfilled the promise of Schlesinger's Darling. Jon Voight has not come near his performance in Midnight Cowboy. Finch and Jackson will find it difficult, perhaps impossible, to equal their Sunday roles. The low Schlesinger is a pirouetting dandy who can take a lean, melancholy story and muck it about. Thus he filled Midnight Cowboy with baroque ornaments and fussy camerawork. Thus he films Sunday Bloody Sunday with the same extraneous...
...flaccid heroics of another adventure film. The Red Tent, invite only listlessness. Based on events surrounding the crash of the Italian airship Italia in 1928, the movie spins a meandering tale of arctic survival and rescue. Peter Finch has a nice go at the part of General Umberto Nobile, the expedition commander, and Sean Connery is engaging as the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who died searching for Nobile...
...footage of snowscapes and icebergs, but Mikhail Kalatozov directs his dramatic scenes in the overripe style of the worst pseudoepic Russian film making. The Red Tent (so titled for the makeshift shelter in which the survivors took refuge) at no time does justice to the drama of the subject. Finch and his crew are continually threatened by starvation and frostbite, but sheer boredom somehow seems a more likely fate...