Title: Dreck
Product review: The lit-crit deconstructionist approach. All that "sub-text" about "sexual ambiguity" and "S&M". You might naively think that Eve (Anne Baxter) is interested in Bill because she makes a pass at him, but no ...Staggs has seen the movie too often, projected too many fantasies into it, subordinated the movie to an agenda. There is some interesting gossip, and a nice summary of the fates of the players. Noe of this makes up for Stagg's stretched and contorted logic or his slack prose.If you want to see the inside of the way a great movie is made read the book about the making of Psycho instead, or Memo From David O Selznick. If you want gossip read one of David Niven's books.
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