Word: hickox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by DOUGLAS HICKOX Screenplay by JACK DEWITT, STANLEY MANN and GARRY MICHAEL WHITE
BRANNIGAN Directed by DOUGLAS HICKOX Screenplay by CHRISTOPHER TRUMBO, MICHAEL BUTLER, WILLIAM P. McGIVERN and WILLIAM NORTON
...public expects to see him in constant- if irrelevant- motion (most of what goes on here can scarcely be dignified with the term action). They crank up chase sequences that are unoriginal in conception and neglectful of the untapped opportunities London presents for cinematic excitement. Since Director Hickox has no apparent gift for adventure sequences, it may be just as well that he did not undertake situations that would tax his limited ingenuity. But it has been a long time since True Grit, and maybe one of our Bicentennial projects ought to be a search for a movie worthy...
...Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Robert Morley and Dennis Price. The movie is bright and, a good deal of the time, quite funny. It is farce as broad as Shaftesbury Avenue, but its high spirits are not entirely consistent with the great gobs of gore that Director Douglas Hickox leaves smeared about. Violence, under the circumstances, ought to have been a charade, but often it is so brutal and lingering that it spoils the joke...
...aimed to outrage, but he also calculated to delight. His dialogue is wickedly original and his vision manages to combine the commonplace and the diabolic. It is as if by loosening a floorboard one could look down at flames. No author could demand a more empathetic director than Douglas Hickox, who understands the Ortonic core: the road to hell is paved with good inventions. The whole cast performs with ease; the kinkier the farce, the straighter their faces. Their achievement is that most difficult feat: a funny murder made murderously funny...