Dir: Otto Preminger
Otto Preminger’s last film in black & black provides confirmation that as a general rule those he made in black & white were better than those in colour.
Here working with a British cast spanning decades of acting talent ranging from Finlay Currie to Anna Massey, despite Preminger’s reputation for self-serving sensationalism here the general mood is subdued, especially Laurence Olivier, who does an impressive job of suppressing his tendency to ham.
In the later stages madness increasingly takes over and among the various eccentrics on view Noel Coward manages to stand out as Carol Lynley’s poisonous landlord. @RichardChatten
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