Noo! The previous Owen short was awful!
Yay! Siân Phillips!
The previous Half Hour Stories have been immaculate, picture and sound wise. This isn’t — it looks like it’s been sourced from a video tape? Which is a shame, because it looks like the most interesting one so far…
It’s a lot of fun watching Siân Phillips here, but the script is beyond risible.
There’s a common theme going through several of these shorts (but not the first two) — stunning women being involved with men that have no charms whatsoever. It’s awful casting. If the scripts were good, that’d help, but this is horrible. It’s so bad that I wonder whether I rated the previous shorts too highly. Perhaps they were all as bad as this really?
Thief. Alan Clarke. 1968. ⚀
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