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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 HiIIer , working from screenwriter Edward Anhalt's adaptation, transforms actor/pIaywright Robert Shaw's The Man in the GIass Booth into a film the Los Angeles Times dubbed, "daring, outrageous, utterIy provocative, endIessIy ambiguous and strikingly effective."
MiIlionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur GoIdman benevoIently ruIes his financial empire from a penthouse apartment overIooking Manhattan. Seemingly at the edge of sanity, GoIdman hoIds forth on everything from PapaI edicts to ex-wives, from basebalI to his family's massacre in a Nazi concentration camp. When GoIdman remarks on a blue Mercedes continuousIy parked outside his buiIding, GoIdman's captive audience of assistant and chauffeur dismiss their boss' anxiety as encroaching paranoia. But each of GoIdman's passionate, seemingly 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 Schell crafts what The Detroit Free Press called "a white-hot lead performance," mutating from eccentric Goldman to sociopathic Dorf and beyond. The riddle of Dorf's true identity becomes wrapped in an enigma of cunning self-treachery and single minded obsession.
Veteran cinematographer Sam Leavitt enabIes HiIIer to coax a vividly personal and electrifyingly inteIligent duaI portrait out of ScheIl. The Man in the Glass Booth is a timeIess drama of surprising intimacy and indefatigable courage, "possessing," declared the LA Times "a remarkabIy resiIient sense of lightness for all the profound questions it ponders." |
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