I wanted to see the movie because of Samantha Eggar, very young here, before the movies that made me fall in love with her, "The Collector" and "The Walking Stick". But she has just a small, unrepresentative role. Ralph Thomas made later "Deadlier Than the Male"(1967), a film that I saw many times and that I really liked when I was just a teenager. In this "Young and Willing" (1962) we have also a very young Ian McShane, discovered by me also when I was a teenager in "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium" (1969). The revelation of this film is Virginia Maskell, excellent in the role of a woman who's married to a man who loves her in his own way, without giving her sex. Paul Rogers is also very good in the role of that man, her husband, a professor. A very very young and unrecognizable John Hurt, in the role of Ian McShane's colleague, who dies falling from the Lincoln tower. Not bad, but neither a masterpiece.
Review of Young and Willing
