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Peter Falk is the one delight in the cast. He has a strong career ahead as "the man you love to hate." Miss Winters is atrociously miscast as a madam, and the motley assortment of psychotics, prostitutes and morons that round out the acting credits will go better unmentioned...
...nose--and get into something roomier than the shockingly indecent tights he has been asked to wear. Carol Schectman gives us a plump-cheeked, milkmaid, Putney-girl Isabella and somehow makes a two-dimensional part seem barely one-dimensional. Jacqueline Winer transforms Mistress Overdone into an inaudible New Orleans madam of the steamboat days; the accents of W.D. Hart's Provost are alternately refined and repulsive; Alfred Guzetti is a childish Elbow; Stanford M. Janger an exhausted Lucio. There are also an Escalus and a Barnadine...
...Balcony. Jean Genet's allegory of life as a bawdy house where men buy illusions at the price of their masculinity. Shelley Winters is the madam who knows what her customers want...
...Balcony. Jean Genet's allegory says that life is a bawdyhouse where men buy illusions at the price of their masculinity. Shelley Winters is the madam who knows what her customers want...
...Balcony. Part burlesque, part Black Mass, Jean Genet's shocker argues that the world is a vast brothel run by an allegorical madam who panders illusions to her customers in return for the surrender of their masculinity. Shelley Winters is the madam...