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In Reply to: posted by AudioHead on November 09, 1999 at 08:10:20:
I agree with you that the climax is lackluster, but the rest of the film is so interesting that I can forgive the weak finish. Some of the images in NOTH are unforgetable, and the mood Laughton achieves makes the film seem almost like a bad dream. I wish he'd directed more.
I think Laughton missed a potentially great terror/suspense scene when the two
kids were in the barn and Mitchum was riding nearby on horseback; they
got away unnoticed by him. One could imagine how terrifying the
scene could have been, with the kids cringing up in the loft with Mitchum
inside, under them; Pearl accidently makes a sound, Mitchum comes up the
loft, narrowly missing them as they barely escape to the boat. I can
just hear John and Pearls little hearts a thumpin' now up in that loft!
Then the following scene, a longish, somewhat boring downstream voyage by the kids, would have been a welcome relief. - AH
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