United Kingdom · 1964
2h 2m
Director Basil Dearden
Starring Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
Director Basil Dearden seems, here, to have temporarily misplaced the vigorous insight that has earned him some top credits. Best that can be said of Straw [from the novel by Catherine Arley] is that it looks handsome. But the film gets bogged down by stilted dialog and by the situations.
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