Roman Polanski's scabrous black comedy set in a decaying Northumberland castle aswarm with chickens by day and owls by night, and swamped by an impossible tide. In spite of the setting, it has a very un-English feel. Polanski operates by his own indecipherable rules (making them up as he goes, it appears); he has a puppeteer's command over the hapless characters (an effeminate hairless Britisher, his fickle French wife, and a brutish American gangster), and a manic-depressive's capriciousness of mood. Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorleac, Lionel Stander. (1966) — Duncan Shepherd
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