One of the few films James Mason latterly made during the seventies worthy of his talent was this gothic adaptation by Sidney Lumet of Robert Marasco's Broadway hit which recalls Hugh Walpole's 'Mr Perrin and Mr Traill', Alf Sjoberg's 'Frenzy' and Giles Cooper's 'Unman, Wittering and Zigo'
Heavy with menace with an ominous score by Michel Small and naturally set in a Catholic institution; it's probably not mere chance that the tormented Mason teaches Latin while the subject taught by his charismatic rival Robert Preston who engages Mason in a rather one-sided battle of the wills (while Beau Bridges looks on aghast) is English.
Heavy with menace with an ominous score by Michel Small and naturally set in a Catholic institution; it's probably not mere chance that the tormented Mason teaches Latin while the subject taught by his charismatic rival Robert Preston who engages Mason in a rather one-sided battle of the wills (while Beau Bridges looks on aghast) is English.