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...GLASS MENAGERIE. This revival of Tennessee Williams' 20-year-old masterpiece, while miscast, is a jewel in Broadway's currently tarnished crown...
...Collector is a good grisly thriller that never rises to the challenge of becoming something more. Contrived to leave viewers feeling scared silly rather than profoundly shaken, this tournament of terror spells instant stardom for two relatively uncelebrated English performers, Samantha Eggar and Terence Stamp, although Stamp is seriously miscast. From a taut beginning to a breath-stopping climax, the drama seizes attention, yet misses nearly all the depth and subtlety of the small sinister bestseller on which it is based...
...GLASS MENAGERIE. This revival of Tennessee Williams' 20-year-old classic, while miscast, is a jewel in Broadway's currently tarnished crown...
Soon the mother abbess (Peggy Wood) finds a solution. She sends the moonbeam off to shine as governess for Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer, slickly miscast), a widower who shares his palatial Schloss with seven troublesome but more or less irresistible children. Appalled by the captain's ironfisted discipline, Maria coddles the youngsters. One stormy eve she packs them all into bed with her, quieting their fears with some doughty Hammerstein stanzas. Eventually she teaches them to sing, captivates their father and marries him. Together they lead their septet across the border to Switzerland, with storm troopers baying...
Expanded to fill the screen, such theatrical twosomes are more often swallowed by it, and Simple Man is no exception. Actress Cilento, strikingly miscast, has the style and quality for a more respectable trade. Worse still, added scenes and nonessential characters only give the viewers time to think dark thoughts, and in the duller stretches, some may wonder whether the to-bed-or-not-to-bed urgency that besets a working-class lout is really much different from the decision that Doris Day has faced so often and so bravely...