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Bookmark this pageThe Last of Sheila (1973)
Director: Herbert Ross
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From Time Out Film Guide
The most interesting thing about this game-playing thriller seemed to be that it was scripted by real-life puzzle-freaks Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim. The presence of an all-star cast promised... well, something. The film itself turned out to be heavily plotted hokum in which a group of six unlikely Hollywood luminaries, each with a guilty secret to hide, are brought together on a yacht anchored off a smart Mediterranean coast so that the film's Machiavellian villain (Coburn) - whose wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident after a party at which they were all present - can wreak impossible havoc on their psyches. Campy stuff, not as much fun as it should be.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Herbert Ross
Producer: Herbert Ross
Cast: Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, James Mason, Ian McShane, Raquel Welch, Yvonne Romaine full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 123 mins
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