Straightforward transition to screen of Harold Pinter's sinister play about a mysterious musician holed up at a seaside boarding house, and the two equally mysterious men who turn up to bring about his downfall. Robert Shaw is ideally cast as the musician, but the film belongs to Dandy Nichols as his dense but flirtatious landlady. One would have thought the claustrophobic story better suited to black and white, but having said that, Denys Coop's Technicolor photography is first-class.

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