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Review title: Rather dull and stagy despite the scandalous subject
Product review: This has been on my radar for a couple of years. It's largely what I imagined. Michael Winner was always little more than a journeyman director, and the film plays out in a rather stagy and arch way. Brando and Beacham are good, but the children and housekeeper are merely adequate. All in all, it lacks atmosphere and confident pacing and ends up rather dull, despite the scandalous mix of sensuality, brutality, and death. In the hands of a more skilled director, I think the middling script could have supported a cracker, but it sort of reaches for Hitchcock and Zalman King and falls significantly short.
