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Review of Phaedra (1962)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 12 Jul 2018

When you think of the repetitiveness of film love-scenes and the low emotional temperature as a result, it seems odd how little has been done…

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Review of The Hanging Tree (1959)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 12 Jul 2018

The Hanging Tree seems, if you go by the cast, all set to become a Top Western; but somehow has slithered…

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Review of Desire Under the Elms (1958)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 12 Jul 2018

Realism, in a play of this kind, has got to be surmounted, over- whelmed, outraged: what happens is beyond realism, and the direction must…

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Review of Lonely are the Brave (1962)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 12 Jul 2018

Lonely are the Brave, a film fairly stuffed with symbolism, shows how inevitably the heroic, human, in its real sense unsophisticated world…

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Review of They Came to Cordura (1959)

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

Realism seems to go a step farther than it need, and show the average man as rather lower than is credible; and it is long and improbable,…

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Review of Mr. Freedom (1969)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 11 Jul 2018

Even the film's few satirical thoughts, though, are left dimly trailing in its curdled mixture of would-be sophisticated larking and kindergarten…

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Review of The Defiant Ones (1958)

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

The film is predictable, even unoriginal; it says nothing new, but it reasserts things that cannot be said too often, and says them with force,…

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Review of North West Frontier (1959)

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

The film stays on its schoolboy level : good, and mostly good-humoured, fun which is splen- didly photographed, and moves imperturbably from…

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Review of Eyes Without a Face (1960)

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

Gets my prize as the sickest film since I started film criticism…

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Review of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 11 Jul 2018

The film's problem is that it is almost an embittered celebration of exhaustion…

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Review of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 11 Jul 2018

Such an amiable and ingenious movie that it seems curmudgeonly to get on any critical high horse…

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Review of Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

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

If so many films were not hybrids -half plays or half novels, half polemical or half literary-1 needn't say what it seems almost absurd to…

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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 Child in the House (1956)

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

Child in the House is saved from being just another of those routine sociological treatises our studios turn out so often by the enchanting…

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Review of The Carpetbaggers (1964)

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

The Carpetbaggers has the outsize awfulness of Holly- wood at its worst, multiplied by a large cast and much supposedly shocking action that…

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Review of Tiger Bay (1959)

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

The effort to bring out the tough variety of place and class and feature is something that wants applauding even when it only half succeeds…

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Review of Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)

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

On every side, Carlton-Browne of the F.O. turns up more opportunely than its makers could ever have hoped when they began it…

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Review of The Left Handed Gun (1958)

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

To the part of Billy the Kid, he brings an air of moronic sensitivity that is very telling, very delinquent and disturbingly typical…

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Review of Solomon and Sheba (1959)

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

It is highbrow nowadays to enjoy this sort of low- browedness, and not admit to too many yawns; all the same, after the first hour or so, I…

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Review of Our Mother's House (1967)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 11 Jul 2018

It isn't the actor's fault, it isn't precisely the director's fault, that a subject which always threatened to be unmanageable finally proves…

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