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The Walking Stick (1970)

Director: Eric Till

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From Time Out Film Guide

A romantico-psychological thriller, with fine, persuasively detailed performances from Eggar as a crippled girl with a sexual chip on her shoulder, and Hemmings as the enigmatic artist who melts it, gradually persuading her to abandon the walking-stick on which she has leaned since a childhood bout with polio, but also leading her to a dark brink of crime and betrayal. Rather too stolidly directed by Till, with meticulous fidelity to Winston Graham's novel, it is reminiscent enough of Marnie (also from a novel by Graham) - here, rather than the colour red, the heroine's problem is a claustrophobic aftermath of her time in an iron lung - to make one wonder whether Hitchcock could have screwed excitement out of the situation as well as sympathetic character studies.

Author: TM 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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  • paul sullivan said...
    Posted on Dec 23 2007 10:21 very good film,i would tell any to watch
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Cast & crew

Director: Eric Till

Producer: Alan Ladd Jr

Cast: David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar, Emlyn Williams, Phyllis Calvert, Ferdy Mayne, Francesca Annis, Dudley Sutton full cast

Genre(s): Thrillers

Duration: 101 mins


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