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...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...
...From the Madding Crowd, the three-hour, full color, Cinerama epic that opened here last week, was, believe it or not, made by the same production team that turned out Darling two years ago. Producer Joseph Janni, director John Schlesinger, and screenwriter Frederic Raphael marked Darling--in black-and-white--with an economy of action, quick cuts, and some deft, telling punches at society's flabby midsection. The film was also marked by Julie Christie...
Presumably, Schlesinger and Raphael intended to get as far away from Darling as possible in choosing to translate the Thomas Hardy novel to the screen. Hardy's tale of Bathsheba Everdene and her headstrong affair with the no-good Sgt. Troy is set an exact 100 years before Darling. In both films, Miss Christie does wend her way through several men. But in Darling, she was consciously presented as amoral. In the new film, Miss Christie is highly moral, rejecting two suitors because she doesn't love them, foolishly rushing into marriage with the dashing Troy (Terence Stamp), yet apologizing...
...accuse Raphael of being unfaithful to Hardy's original. He has moved virtually every incident of the novel into his script. But in doing so, he, with Schlesinger's twitchy camera, have served up more plot than the film's skimpy characterization can plaster together. Perhaps as a unification device, Schlesinger again hauls out his Darling trick of beginning the dialogue of the next scene while still presenting a first one. No scene is presented at any great length, except the the key one in which Stamp wins Miss Christie with a flashing display of sword exercises on a sweeping...
...FROM THE MADDING CROWD. Director John Schlesinger and Scenarist Frederic Raphael, who collaborated on Darling, now join in bringing Thomas Hardy's Victorian novel vividly to the screen-with the help of solid performances by Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch and Terence Stamp...