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...HOMECOMING is a totally engrossing drama. Written sparely by Harold Pinter, directed tautly by Peter Hall, performed perfectly by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, it tickles one's humor while gnawing the instincts and scraping the soul...
...certain extent, the change in styles produced an improvement in quality. Better directors and writers were drawn to spy movies once they stopped being farcical exursions into the world of Ian Fleming. Michael Anderson directed and Harold Pinter wrote The Quiller Memorandum, easily the best of the lot. But more recently the Bond hacks have begun to get their hands in to the new field. Guy Hamilton, a hack if ever there was one, has directed Funeral in Berlin, a clumsy, convoluted, illegitimate offspring of The Ipcress File in which agent Harry Palmer, again played by Michael Caine, proves...
...HOMECOMING. It is distinctly unlikely that Broadway will see a play surpassing this Harold Pinter masterwork during the current season. The mesmeric drama is innately primitive, Oedipal, conjugal, and its mythic war between the sexes ends as that war aways does: no winners, all wounded...
...Pinter and the Marx Brothers collaborated on a comedy, and dread and menace were laughing matters, Eh? might be the result. Dustin Hoffman is properly sinister and silly as Henry Livings' pop protagonist...
...HOMECOMING, by Harold Pinter, is a trifle trickish and studied, but it is distinctly unlikely that Broadway will see a play surpassing it in dramatic quality during the current season. This mesmeric drama is innately primitive, Oedipal, and conjugal, and its mythic war between the sexes ends up as that war always does: no winners, all wounded...