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Directed by ELIA KAZAN Screenplay by CHRIS KAZAN
...screenplay concerns a Viet Nam veteran named Bill Schmidt (James Woods) who is living a quiet rural life with his girl friend (Patricia Joyce) and their newborn baby. Unexpectedly he is visited by two Army buddies. This is no sentimental reunion, but a tense, eventually violent rite of retribution. The friends have only recently been released from prison terms stemming from their participation in a wartime atrocity. Bill was a key witness against them at their court-martial...
...houses on his father's 170-acre farm in Newtown, Conn. Shortly after he settled down, he began a second novel, which was published in December as The Love Freak; Elia approached him with the idea for The Visitors, asking him to turn it into a screenplay-something Chris had never written before...
Directed by STUART ROSENBERG Screenplay by TERRY MALICK...
...what is most surprising and welcome in the film has nothing to do with originality. Its achievement lies instead in the handling of traditional problems of dramatic presentation. Scenes are well staged, lines well spoken, and the attention to medieval detail is apt. Tynan's screenplay is reasonably faithful, and the Shakespeare, though somewhat clouded, is never obscured. Polanski is no longer so eager to play enfant terrible, and it is not his radicalism that is impressive but his competence, that dullest of virtues...