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Bartleby (1970)

Director: Anthony Friedmann

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From Time Out Film Guide

Made largely thanks to Paul Scofield's support, this was much vaunted in its day as an example of what could be done by a British independent cinema. What it actually does is betray Herman Melville's enigmatic story (about a clerk's passive withdrawal from his office responsibilities) by updating it to present-day London and anchoring its mysterious ambiguities in all-too-prosaic realities. And it vividly illustrates the pitfalls of film-making divorced from any real social, political or aesthetic context.

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Cast & crew

Director: Anthony Friedmann

Producer: Rodney Carr-Smith, Anthony Friedmann

Cast: Paul Scofield, John McEnery, Thorley Walters, Colin Jeavons, Raymond Mason, Charles Kinross full cast

Duration: 79 mins


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