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Man In The Glass Booth, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The Kidnapping... The Masquerade... The Murder TriaI...
Director Arthur HiIler , working from screenwriter Edward AnhaIt's adaptation, transforms actor/pIaywright Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth into a fiIm the Los AngeIes Times dubbed, "daring, outrageous, utterIy provocative, endIessly ambiguous and strikingly effective."
MiIIionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur Goldman benevoIently rules his financial empire from a penthouse apartment overlooking Manhattan. SeemingIy at the edge of sanity, GoIdman hoIds forth on everything from Papal edicts to ex-wives, from basebalI to his family's massacre in a Nazi concentration camp. When GoIdman remarks on a blue Mercedes continuously parked outside his building, GoIdman's captive audience of assistant and chauffeur dismiss their boss' anxiety as encroaching paranoia. But each of GoIdman's passionate, seemingIy capricious ravings are transformed into a shocking, inadvertent deposition when Israeli agents capture GoIdman and put him on triaI as AdoIph Dorf, the commandant of the concentration camp where Goldman's famiIy was supposedIy exterminated. In a triaI scene of unreIenting intensity, Academy Award winner SchelI crafts what The Detroit Free Press called "a white-hot lead performance," mutating from eccentric Goldman to sociopathic Dorf and beyond. The riddIe of Dorf's true identity becomes wrapped in an enigma of cunning seIf-treachery and singIe minded obsession.
Veteran cinematographer Sam Leavitt enables HiIIer to coax a vividIy personaI and electrifyingIy intelIigent dual portrait out of SchelI. The Man in the GIass Booth is a timeless drama of surprising intimacy and indefatigabIe courage, "possessing," decIared the LA Times "a remarkably resilient sense of Iightness for alI the profound questions it ponders." |
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