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...admired (as actors or as children). Their matter-of-fact acceptance of the increasingly frightening world around them contrasts with the histrionics of their grandmother (Uta Hagen). Many critics have complained of her overacting, but I liked both the role (which must be credited to novel-and-scriptwriter Tom Tryon) and her portrayal of it. She represents the ancient wisdoms, the old-fashioned mysticism, the Russian excitability that has been assimilated into her descendants' world of jeeps and cotton candy. It is the seemingly normal world of the twins that provides the material for this inquiry into evil...
Directed by ROBERT MULLIGAN Screenplay by THOMAS TRYON...
...Thomas Tryon, a onetime actor (The Cardinal), has written the screenplay from his own bestselling novel, The Other, a gushy gothic mystery set in the early '30s. The main characters are twin boys (Chris and Martin Udvarnoky), who fly about their New England farm playing magical games, encouraged by their grandmother Ada (Uta Hagen), a transplanted Russian who repeats adages like "God does not mean that we miss too much what he takes from us," and "As we came from the earth, so are we returned to it." Grandmother needs all her homely folk wisdom, for her daughter Alexandra...
Suffice it to say that one of the twins (the other?) turns out to be monstrously, homicidally evil, and that Tryon and Mulligan pull off a neat plot twist midway in the action. It's diverting enough, but still essentially a trick. What is badly needed is some reason for the twins' rampaging villainy, some suggestion of why they should be so keen on frightening old ladies to death and carrying human fingers around in a Prince Albert tobacco can. Instead, all we get is a sleight-of-hand...
...Wheels, Hailey (2 last week) 2. The Day of the Jackal, Forsyth (1) 3. Message from Malaga, Maclnnes (4) 4. The Exorcist, Blatty (3) 5. The Betsy, Robbins (6) 6. The Winds of War, Wouk (7) 7. Bear Island, MacLean (5) 8. Rabbit Redux, Updike 9. The Other, Tryon (9) 10. Our Gang, Roth...