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Compassionately, the British playwright David Rudkin shows us a man and a woman struggling under that curse. Colin (Brian Murray) and Anne (Roberta Maxwell) have been married for a few years and are childless. They have entered the bitter season of their relatives' and neighbors' titters and taunts. The couple consults a medical adviser, a "semenologist...
Directed by ARTHUR HILLER Screenplay by COLIN HIGGINS...
...Besides the dialogue, which sounds like counsel from "The Playboy Adviser," the twists of plot have been extensively mapped by previous train thrillers, from The Lady Vanishes to Gary Grant's interlude aboard the Twentieth Century Limited in North by Northwest. Director Arthur Hiller (Love Story) and Scenarist Colin Higgins (Harold and Maude) are simply following along the tracks...
...Colin E. Autrey...
...Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), a lovely, melancholy evocation of the master sleuth. It was a ravishing movie, misunderstood and ignored on its first release. Now should be just the time for another look at it. The movie features portraits of Holmes (by Robert Stephens) and Watson (by Colin Blakely) that are virtually definitive and thoroughly captivating. Director Wilder showed respect for Conan Doyle, with out slavish devotion, and managed to make the two sleuths real men even as he dealt with them as myths. Watching The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which tries to do much the same thing...