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...James B. Collinson Devils Lake...
...sharp angles and bilious color, like a 20-quid suit. It is mostly the usual spy stuff, terse and vicious, with Stanley Baker as an aging agent sent out on his last big job. Its dizzying intrigue of counterplots and triplecrosses probably would have worked better if Director Peter Collinson had not tried to slick it up with a lot of addled editing and improbable violence. Given the prevailing tone of careless hokum, two peformances are triumphant. Donald Pleasence appears as the head of intelligence, a man hilariously paralyzed by decorum. He is immaculately polite and sinister, whether ordering...
...soldiers are convincingly unactorish, and the camera watches them well, making dramatic use of focus shifts (the credits list a focus technician as well as a cameraman and a photography director). At 28, British Director Peter Collinson (The Penthouse and Up the Junction), who doubled as co-producer of The Long Day's Dying, has the technical skills of moviemaking well in hand. Time now to concentrate on the intangibles. Like taste...
...JUNCTION. Suzy Kendall, the newest and perhaps brightest of Britain's new blonde birds, is reason enough to recommend this trip to a broken-down Battersea slum, based on a novel by Nell Dunn (Poor Cow) and directed by Peter Collinson (The Penthouse...
...JUNCTION. Another London slum saga, based on a novel by Nell Dunn (Poor Cow), is saved from its pulpy sociology by Director Peter Collinson's feeling for the locale, and Actress Suzy Kendall's widening range of talent...