Word: nicol
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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Nicol Williamson plays, with explosive passion, John Osborne's portrait of a London solicitor who, resentful of being remade in the image of the computer, symbolizes buffeted humanity in the 20th century...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. John Osborne's unsparing portrait of a 39-year-old London solicitor who realizes abruptly that his life is "irredeemably mediocre" makes an impressive transition to the screen, with Actor Nicol Williamson giving acrid life to the aloes of Osborne's lines...
...scenario for the film, Osborne has speeded the tempo by slimming the monologues; Director Anthony Page has gained added power by close-ups that pore over a human face desolate in its frustrations. As on the London and New York stage, the demanding role of Maitland is enacted by Nicol Williamson, a player of explosive passion. Williamson does not merely perform; he lays his life on the line. His eyes are wells of mocking, melancholy torment that seem to see and sear every filmgoer in the house...
Inadmissible Evidence is also a feast of literacy. At his best, John Osborne can make words spit, sing, keen and dance. In this film, he has something to say and knows how to say it. Nicol Williamson does the rest with abrasive splendor; one crease in his troubled brow is an abyss of anguish...
From its catalogue of "Plays We (and the Sponsors) All Know and Love," ABC also presented an adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. But what were they thinking about when they signed Britain's classical actor Nicol Williamson to play Lennie, the hulking, simple-minded American farm hand? That seemed a little like casting David Niven as Quasimodo. Well, in short, Williamson was an extraordinary Lennie. Of the trio of Britons who dominated the tube last week, his performance was the most remarkable. Bug-eyed and slackjawed, gangly and gawky, stammering and shuffling, he gave...