A Doll's House (1973)
Country: GB
Technical: col 105m
Director: Patrick Garland
Cast: Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Denholm Elliott, Sir Ralph Richardson, Anna Massey
Synopsis:
A bank official's prospects are on the rise, but his wife's childlike approach to money risks bringing his world tumbling down when one of his employees threatens to expose her forgery on a promissory note.
Review:
Quite why there were ever two versions of this very theatrical venture in production at the same time (cf. Joseph Losey's with Jane Fonda) is a mystery. The play is about what happens when women are deprived of education and treated as adornments; Nora's response is radical, to abandon everything and return to square one. It all seems strangely out of step with the early 1970s, unless it appealed to the women's libbers opposed to Mrs Schlafly! Bloom is fine, if a little too old, and the piece is a talk fest with nothing very cinematic about it at all.
Country: GB
Technical: col 105m
Director: Patrick Garland
Cast: Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Denholm Elliott, Sir Ralph Richardson, Anna Massey
Synopsis:
A bank official's prospects are on the rise, but his wife's childlike approach to money risks bringing his world tumbling down when one of his employees threatens to expose her forgery on a promissory note.
Review:
Quite why there were ever two versions of this very theatrical venture in production at the same time (cf. Joseph Losey's with Jane Fonda) is a mystery. The play is about what happens when women are deprived of education and treated as adornments; Nora's response is radical, to abandon everything and return to square one. It all seems strangely out of step with the early 1970s, unless it appealed to the women's libbers opposed to Mrs Schlafly! Bloom is fine, if a little too old, and the piece is a talk fest with nothing very cinematic about it at all.
Country: GB
Technical: col 105m
Director: Patrick Garland
Cast: Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Denholm Elliott, Sir Ralph Richardson, Anna Massey
Synopsis:
A bank official's prospects are on the rise, but his wife's childlike approach to money risks bringing his world tumbling down when one of his employees threatens to expose her forgery on a promissory note.
Review:
Quite why there were ever two versions of this very theatrical venture in production at the same time (cf. Joseph Losey's with Jane Fonda) is a mystery. The play is about what happens when women are deprived of education and treated as adornments; Nora's response is radical, to abandon everything and return to square one. It all seems strangely out of step with the early 1970s, unless it appealed to the women's libbers opposed to Mrs Schlafly! Bloom is fine, if a little too old, and the piece is a talk fest with nothing very cinematic about it at all.