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...Albert Finney goes through these changes in Alpha-Beta (originally a play, adapted with minimal cinematographic flourishes for the screen). Instead of the flippant, mostly harmless satire of a foray into the "Now Generation" that, say, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas turned into, this simple film, focusing entirely on Finney's Frank Elliot and his wife, Nora, played by Rachel Roberts, jolts us with an unrelentingly realistic, though extreme, view of the psychological crisis of a not old, but not young couple who choke on all the subtle lies needed to sustain the new 'honesty...
...that were not enough, the tangles reached even to U.S. Attorney Jervis Finney, who is nominally in charge of the prosecution. When the Government started presenting its case last week, Republican Finney was making himself scarce, apparently because as a former Maryland state senator he might be called as a witness for Democrat Mandel's defense...
...cast consists, in its entirety, of the original London stage company: Rachel Roberts, an actress of daunting strength, who works hard to give Nora some of the sympathetic understanding the author neglected; and Albert Finney, a prodigious actor who is masterly at containing and then portioning out his power. His Frank is a creation of fierce bluster and desperate anger. Even while he is railing, Finney can convey -in the sidelong unease of a glance, a little twitch of uncertain anxiety-the small, sabotaging currents of helplessness and terror. Jay Cocks
When the National Theater opens its new quarters on March 16 with a production of Hamlet with Albert Finney in the title role, the occasion will mark both the end and the beginning of an impossibly protracted dream. The first serious proposal for a national theater was made in 1848 by a London publisher named Effingham Wilson. As long ago as 1938, Bernard Shaw had actually secured the deeds for a prospective national theater site...
...plethora of dances and parties signaling the Dartmouth weekend doesn't entrap you, several of the Houses offer attractive diversions on their screens. Kirkland House hosts Tom Jones, the painless way to approach Henry Fielding, with Susannah York and Albert Finney masterfully lusting after both each other and greasy mutton chops...