Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AFTER THE RAIN is an eggshell of a play from an egghead playwright. John Bowen borrows and embalms theatrical modes and ideas 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...
...COMEDIANS. Graham Greene's Haitian purgatory has an excellent cast (Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Ford) and enough transcendent drama to absolve it from its most glaring sin: at two hours and 40 minutes, it is too long...
...FROM THE MADDING CROWD. Director John Schlesinger and Screenwriter Frederic Raphael, who collaborated on Darling, now bring Thomas Hardy's Victorian novel vividly to the screen, with solid performances by Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch and Terence Stamp...
...PETER A. RICHARDS Deerfield, Mass...
Alan Bates, as the simple farmer, Gabriel Oak, and Peter Finch, as the wealthy farmer, William Boldwood, come off better because their characters are not intended to be complex. They serve principally as foils--constants throughout the film off whom the relationship between Miss Christie and Stamp can bounce. Bates, in particular, has landed a strong, sympathetic part, and his ultimate triumph is quite satisfying...