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...story, the movie leaves no room for suspense. When the action drags, it makes little difference whether the crooks wear habits or five o'clock shadow. Nothing new emerges about the Watergate fiasco--except that it is difficult to make an entertaining film out of it. Robert Ender's screenplay, an adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel The Abbess of Crewe, manages only to trivialize the scandal, and any profundity about absolute power corrupting absolutely is lost beneath gossamer one-liners...
...this story's complex web of blackmail and murder. That's the answer to the question, asked whenever this film is brought up, of who comes out as the culprit in the end. At least that's the answer in the book; whether it actually carried over into this screenplay is not at all clear. One of those great rumors has it that Faulkner, who was out in Hollywood taking his day in the sun touching up this script, could make neither heads nor tails of the plot-line and got in touch with novelist Raymond Chandler for some clues...
...Screenplay by EDWARD and MILDRED LEWIS...
Network. This is the film that garnered Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay at last month's Academy Award ceremonies, and if you haven't already, you're probably dying to see it. Take our world for it--don't. The best thing about this movie about the shenanigans behind the evening news at UBS is commentator Peter Finch's letter perfect impersonation of Eric Sevareid. But once you get over your amusement at that stentorian phrasing you find... nothing. The film is as sterile as a 30 second clip of Amy Carter walking to her integrated school. Faye...
Directed by JOHN STURGES Screenplay by TOM MANKIEWICZ