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the first place. ... Where the book maintains the ambiguities to the end, the film admits to being a detective story by delivering its answer just in time for the final sequence to turn into a somewhat suspect hymn to the joys of good, hard toil. The land, it would seem, has more to offer than the laboratory – for all that
Martino himself would seem to be the ultimate achievement in prosthetics. Perhaps to avert our attention from too close a scrutiny of this paradox, perhaps as a concession to the supposed requirements of the box office,
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hectoring phrases and exaggerated scowls appear the more mannered beside the expressionless little victim of his aggression. Like
Martino himself, Who? finally gives the impression of something quite out of the ordinary that has lost the struggle to make itself heard. And like Martino, it survives as a patchwork of disparate material for which nobody, sadly, could find much use."
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An enigmatic individual with a metal face is returned from East
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takes time off for a tolerably exciting car-chase and some later business with an FBI agent which does considerable damage by its sheer implausibility. And where Gold has clearly found congenial material in Trevor Howard as the
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