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Shock Treatment is more than a slip, it's a Freudian pratfall. It makes a shambles of psychiatry and brings the art of film close to idiocy. Stuart Whitman is hired to bluff his way into a mental hospital where Psychotic Killer Roddy McDowall may or may not reveal the location of $1,000,000 in stolen cash. But malevolent Psychiatrist Lauren Bacall also craves money, to continue her research. When she hits on Whitman's game, she prescribes electroshock therapy, then injects a concoction into his jugular vein to induce catatonia...
...village life in Anatolia, the wharfs in Constantinople, and manners in Greek households. There are fine bits of protest, too, like a glimpse of a busy American sea captain nonchalantly ignoring an aged stevedore who has collapsed under his burden. During the voyage, the faces of crew members reveal their contempt for the immigrants. The brunt of the social criticism loses its bite, however, when put beside a hero whose noblest image of America seems to be a towering dollar sign...
OPINION The Perfect Platform Amid all the Republican noncandidates, Clare Boothe Luce last week went out of her way to reveal that she too is not a candidate. In a witty, Associated Press interview, the former Connecticut Congresswoman and U.S. Ambassador to Italy quipped: "I'd enter the New Hampshire primary in a minute if I had a campaign manager, an organization and a political base. I've certainly got the program." That program turned out to be, at the very least, that rarity in American politics-crackling satire. Among its planks: > I am for the 35-hour...
This plot demands melodramatic situations which are absurd enough to be satirized--and yet subtle enough to reveal nuances of personality. Shaw's characters are complex creations. They discover and reveal unpleasant truths about themselves, as when the minister's wife Judith finds herself falling in love with Dick, the dashing reprobate. Several times in the first two acts, Director Clayton Koelb sacrifices subtlety to mere farce. For example, Dick's younger brother, Charles Degleman is so completely--if amusingly--idiotic that it is hard to remember that he is considered the "good" brother of the family...
Except for this overdone portrayal, the characterizations are penetrating. Mark Bramhall's movements and changes of tone demonstrate Dick Dudgeon's energetic honesty. His smile is perfect: it can soften into kindness, flash a satiric comment on his own words, or reveal a spirited man who impetuously offers to sacrifice his life. Micheal Ehrhardt plays General Burgoyne, a character whose ability to mock an absurd situation resembles Dick's; he is impressive in his dignity, biting in his wit. Even Pamela Harris's opening gesture foreshadows the careful details of her performance: she awakens, and consciously assumes her dour, self...