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Finally Watched This Movie


And, I rated it an 8. Many great performances here and although I've never been a great Katherine Hepburn fan, I think her performance is this film was one of her best. I've always been a great Burt Lancaster fan so for me this movie hit all the right notes!! Sorry I waited so long.

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I'm just sorry that it took a half hour to get Lancaster's character fully into the film. It was a bit boring before that. I think they could have done a better job of adapting the play so it wouldn't look and sound so stagy.

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pt100 says > I think they could have done a better job of adapting the play so it wouldn't look and sound so stagy.
I really dislike 'stagy' movies. At one brief point toward the end it felt kind of stagy but for the most part I did not get that feel. I am not a fan of theater so staginess is always a huge turn off for me. Thankfully, I did not get that sense in this movie.


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