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Based on a story by Friedrich Duerenmatt, The Visit poses the question of morality's subservience to the dollar (or, in this case, the dinar). A wealthy Yugoslavian widow (Ingrid Bergman) returns after twenty years to the small town from which she had been driven, disgraced and pregnant, by the perjured testimony of her lover, Serge Miller. Now, she offers to free the town and its inhabitants from their poverty at a stroke--in return for Miller's life. After hearing their first indignant refusal, she settles down to wait...
Even if the widow's emotions have been crippled--as she contends--by her betrayal by Miller, Ingrid Bergman's portrayal is flat as a steppe, alternating facile hatred with superficial charm. Anthony Quinn does better as Miller, in a roomier role. Several relatives of the producer seem to be cast in the minor parts. Maybe Wicki knew what he was about after...
...Love announces an exciting new talent from Scandinavia: Jorn Donner, 31, a prolific writer and critic turned moviemaker and a Finnish protege of Ingmar Bergman. In his second full-length movie Donner has produced a satyr play, the story of an orgiastic courtship of a merry widow (Harriet Andersson) by a lecherous travel agent (Zbigniew Cybulski) that some will consider too sexplicit, but almost all will find continually and wildly hilarious...
Died. Jane Hadley Barkley, 52, widow of Alben, a comely St. Louis secretary who caught the Veep's fancy on a visit to Washington in 1949 (he was then 71, she 38), suddenly found herself swept up in one of the most popular and public courtships in history as her "Punkin" shuttled between his Washington desk and her St. Louis home until he won her hand four months later; of a heart attack; in Washington...
Married. Edie Adams, 35, kittenish nightclub comedienne and cinemactress, widow of the late cigar-chomping Ernie Kovacs; and Marty Mills, 37, Manhattan music publisher; she for the second time; in Beverly Hills, Calif...