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Directed by JEANNOT SZWARC Screenplay by WILLIAM CASTLE and THOMAS PAGE
EXTREME CLOSE-UP is a lubricous, opportunistic piece of business about a TV newsman (James McMullan) who gets hooked on surveillance equipment and turns into a very well-equipped Peeping Tom. The writer, Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain) and the director, Jeannot Szwarc (whose previous credits include no features but a great many episodes on TV shows like Marcus Welby and Ironsides), affect a certain air of importance and urgency...
...that are still going on. So far, however, he has not incriminated himself. "They want me to wear the hat," he said, "but I can assure them that it won't fit." Other underworld witnesses have been hauled in for questioning as well, including such Parisian types as "Jeannot le Corse," "Bronco," "Swami" and "Francois le Beige," but their testimony has simply confused matters. So far, efforts to coax Nathalie to testify have been largely fruitless, although she did submit to one bout of questioning. Now she pleads that she is too busy in Rome to break away. Delon...
...American wanderer of European background, whose strongest characteristic is a persistent fretfulness and a concern for the color of clothes. What has maimed him, he thinks, is his frustrated passion for his bitch-wife, Liliane. But his strongest attachment is to a young, handsome male servant, an Algerian named Jeannot...
What ruins the book is not that Nicholas has homosexual leanings, but that the author appears not to understand this. While the novel's plot winds improbably toward a reconciliation between Nicholas and the hungrily passionate Liliane, the friendship between the hero and Jeannot burns bright and true, a forlorn adult parody of the boyish attachment between the two prep-school friends of A Separate Peace. Least convincing is the character of Jeannot, who is so nearly canine in his simplehearted loyalty that the reader expects him momentarily to dash into a burning building and carry out a trapped...