Movies
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Kathleen Quinlan, in a blessedly unsentimental and unsymbolic characterization, is a pretty tough nut, possessed by a secret society of demons and sworn to serve as their protectress; and Bibi Andersson, who owns a pair of pale -green eyes that are a perfect match to Quinlan's, is the heroic nutcracker, a psychoanalyst with a useful penchant for detective novels. It's a fairly scary mental-ward movie, complete with a hissably villainous orderly and with tangible, audible bogeymen costumed like the Visigoths in an Italian muscleman spectacle. Two big names, Gavin Lambert and Lewis John Carlino, adapted the Hannah Green novel; Anthony Page directed. 1977.
— Duncan Shepherd
Reader Rating:
- MPAA Rating: R
