Word: maniacs
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...works seems largely a matter of pacing and acting. The script, taken from Frederick Knott's most recent Broadway thriller, wouldn't be worth a damn if badly played. Although it is relentlessly logical, it starts from an incredible premise--that a blind housewife, alone and confronted by a maniac and two criminal associates, would engage them in a battle of wits instead of just dissolving...
Audrey Hepburn as the housewife is totally appealing. Her physical frailty is a genuine asset here, and she deserves an award just for keeping her "blind" eyes looking in the proper direction throughout. The real acting coup is Alan Arkin's. As a homocidal-sex maniac, Arkin is bone-chilling. His use of sunglasses, an eventual plot element, helps prevent associating him with the lovable sailor of The Russians Are Coming...
...been born, bred and marinated in his white liberalism." Darnay was aghast when his son Sidney returned from the New Left conference in Chicago in a decidedly illiberal frame of mind after being denounced by Black Power advocates. " 'I'm sick of being called a genocidal maniac!' young Sidney shouted. 'Sh-sh,' cautioned his mother. 'The liberals next door may hear you, and then we won't get invited to any more cocktail parties.' 'I'm sick of living in this liberal ghetto,' young Sidney said...
...from Bertolt Brecht, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and Peter Weiss and colors them in a fashionable shade of apocalypstick. As the tyrannical leader of a Noah-like band of survivors from the flood of 1969, Alec McCowen is convincingly diabolical as he plucks open the soul of a power maniac...
...from Bertolt Brecht, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Peter Weiss and colors them in a fashionable shade of apocalypstick. As the tyrannical leader of a Noah-like band of survivors from the flood of 1969, Alec McCowen is convincingly diabolical as he plucks open the soul of a power maniac...