Title: One of Bancroft's Best Performances
Product review: Two years after her Oscar-winning performance in The Miracle Worker Anne Bancroft selected this Harold Pinter script from a Penelope Mortimer novel, directed by Jack Clayton (also a very talented cinematographer). Bancroft plays a much married woman with eight children who takes a chance on Peter Finch. When he starts philandering she begins a nervous breakdown. It's not fun or uplifting but in the hands of these artists it is compelling and the acting is superb. The film also stars James Mason, the fabulous Maggie Smith (in two scenes, curiously unbilled), Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Johnson, Eric Porter and the inimitable Yootha Joyce (check out her scene in a beauty salon). Superior adult fare.Bancroft was nominated for her second Oscar but lost to Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins! Two more different performances cannot be imagined.
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