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Directed by PETER HALL Screenplay by HAROLD PINTER...
This is a precise adaptation of Pinter's play-the director and much of the cast are intact from the original 1965 London production-and it makes a fine, ferocious film. One reason for its success is that no one writes this well originally for films, not even Harold Pinter. His other screenplays are cool, exemplary, probably the best scenario writing now being done in English, as a recently published collection (Grove; $10) readily attests. The screenplays are all adaptations, though. They have the eerie accents of Pinter, share a great many of his obsessional themes, but the plots...
...Continental style of crediting films were adopted, this would be less a film by Peter Hall than by Harold Pinter...
Nervous and Uptight. Hohimer's brother Harold, 38, corroborated Rugendorf s claim when he got in touch with Petacque four weeks ago to describe a meeting with a "real nervous and uptight" Hohimer the day after the murder. "He said he had to 'off a girl," Harold told the reporter. "I asked him why he had to do someone in, and he said it was because the girl made a lot of noise and they got in a fight. I asked him, 'What score are you talking about?' and he said...
...play is tricked out with melodramatic devices that keep it moving suspensefully, though often with a heavily ironic tread. Always fastidiously attentive to detail, Harold Prince has directed in the mode of stylized Expressionism, which helps mask gaping implausibilities in the writing...