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...Shaped Room. The plot may be soap-operatic, but sensitive direction, an understated screenplay, and good performances by luminous Leslie Caron, hawk-faced Tom Bell and oldtime Vaudevillian Cicely Courtneidge help to make this story about love, loneliness and unwed motherhood more than worthwhile...
...characters are mostly Characters, and the sound track turns on a spigot marked Brahms to cue every tender moment. But L-Shaped Room shrugs off these shortcomings to become a beautiful and refreshing film. Part of the credit goes to Director Bryan Forbes (Whistle Down the Wind), whose screenplay honestly makes the unwed-motherhood story a low-key masterpiece of candor and sensitivity. A larger share goes to Leslie Caron; she plays not a girl who "got into trouble" but a young woman of remarkable dignity who, after a loveless weekend affair, chooses the less convenient road. Faced with...
Landru. Another Chabrol picture, this one with a screenplay by Francoise Sagan, whose cynical scenario is based on the French Bluebeard who murdered ten women during World War I in France. Danielle Darrieux and Michèle Morgan are among Landru's victims...
...where Big Deal on Madonna Street leaves off, with Comic Carlo Pisacane trying desperately to keep his tapeworm living in the style to which it has become accustomed. Vittorio Gassman and his Madonna Street gang wiggle through some funny scenes. Landru. Another Chabrol picture, this one with a screenplay by Françoise Sagan, whose cynical scenario is based on the French Bluebeard who murdered ten women during World War I in France. Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan are among Landru's victims. Love Is a Ball. The ball is filled with hot air, but Hope Lange and Glenn...
...screenplay for Come Fly with Me is the work of William Roberts. He deserves the season's Joe Miller Award for being mostest with the fustiest...