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Review of The Apartment (1960)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 11 Jul 2018

Savoury Shirley' Maclaine and savoury Jack Lemmon save the day, two sad comedians who never spell Pathos with a capital and make a good pair,…

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Review of Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jun 2018

Complex, tender, agonising, it makes a country's moral dilemma as personal as love, and the pain of moral disillusion as immediate a torment…

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Review of Viridiana (1962)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jun 2018

What limits [Buñuel's] morality play and blunts its force is the fact that he has so little to set against it…

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Review of Back Street (1961)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jun 2018

It's so delicious bad it's monumental, a masterpiece of nonsense…

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Review of Inherit the Wind (1960)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jun 2018

It confirms Mr. Kramer as the versatile man he is, full of object lessons for the world; this time a forceful one about the right to think…

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Review of The Ipcress File (1965)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jun 2018

The Iperess File is a thriller set in a recognisable London where espionage is a seedy business conducted, not by impregnable Bonds, but by…

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Review of Psycho (1960)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 07 May 2018

The film has its authentic moments of visual shock that make you sit up with sheet whistling admiration…

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Review of Psycho (1998)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 07 May 2018

The film has its authentic moments of visual shock that make you sit up with sheet whistling admiration…

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Review of Murder by Contract (1958)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 07 May 2018

Cool is just the word for it: the emotional temperature is creepily low, everything chillingly understated…

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Review of From the Terrace (1960)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 07 May 2018

Few novelists film as disastrously as John O'Hara; From the Terrace has everything that makes for overblown filming: every giant cliche you…

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Review of Psycho (2007)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 07 May 2018

The film has its authentic moments of visual shock that make you sit up with sheet whistling admiration…

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Review of A Hole in the Head (1959)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 14 Mar 2018

Acting and direction save it from every pothole of mawkishness it might have dropped into; and as a comedy of temperament it manages to be…

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Review of Sleeping Beauty (1959)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 14 Mar 2018

Sleeping Beauty is frightening, overcoloured, overanimated and overwhelmingly vulgar, with a lot of lugubrious wordage set to Tchaikovsky's music…

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Review of The Scapegoat (1959)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 14 Mar 2018

Sir Alec's performance seems to be caricaturing the Guinness style: cold, correct, restrained almost to the point of self-extinction, he underacts…

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