The lust of teacher for pupil is a subject not often done on screen (at least not in proportion to its frequency in real life), but this essay on it comes pretty close to the last word, with a few words to say also on related matters like faculty infighting, class envy, midlife crisis. Who better to take up such a topic than Harold Pinter (writer) and Joseph Losey (director), those virtuosi of stifled hysteria and mannerly violence? And where better to take it up than on the hallowed grounds of Oxford? An impeccably made movie, notwithstanding the final shot, with its disobedient dog and a tracking camera that exposes its tracks. Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael York, Jacqueline Sassard, Vivien Merchant, Delphine Seyrig. (1967) — Duncan Shepherd
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