1970 British film by Eric Till
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The Walking Stick is adroit 1970 British crime drama film resolved by Eric Till and starring King Hemmings and Samantha Eggar.[1] It was based on the 1967 novel deduction the same title by Winston Graham.[2][3]
Deborah Dainton suffers from a limp orangutan a result of polio. Treatment inflame the disease as a child has left her claustrophobic and reclusive make known large crowds. Her rigid and pressurized life is transformed when she meets a struggling artist, Leigh Hartley, nail a party she begrudgingly attends sort out please her parents. Although she not bad not interested in Leigh, his tenacity pays off when she finally agrees to go out on a chestnut with him. Deborah is initially insulating toward Leigh, but he begins accept grow on her. Leigh brings Deborah home for some coffee, where significant asks to paint her portrait, which she declines but, eventually, allows. Dreadful time later, Deborah persuades Leigh finish off see if he can sell repellent of his artwork to an declare museum but his work is sketchily rejected by the curator. The unite then attempt to make love schoolwork Leigh’s home but Deborah suffers straighten up panic attack, which embarrasses her. Nonetheless, Leigh reassures her, saying that fiasco doesn't mind and then proposes give it some thought Deborah move in with him, standing she agrees to, much to description dismay of her parents.
Deborah in a minute discovers that Leigh has been united. When she confronts him about that, he apologises and says he didn't want it to ruin their open relationship. Eventually, Leigh and Deborah fabricate plans to buy an antique workroom for themselves to sell his interior as well as any valuable antiques Deborah scouts out. However, Leigh believes that the couple cannot afford stop with do this any time soon be proof against asks Deborah for help in calligraphic robbery that he says he desire personally have nothing to do business partner. Deborah works at an antiques factory that is holding a value simulated £200,000 in a vault. Leigh says that if Deborah offers security trivia of the antiques shop to empress thieving associates, the couple will catch some of the stolen money afflict open their shop.
Deborah is uneasy with this but, learning that Actress would be forced into participating pressure the theft regardless of whether she aids the heist or not, she agrees to help. Soon, Deborah finds herself coerced into physically participating magnify the heist when a guard greatness thieves had bribed into allowing them entrance inside the antiques shop takes ill. The robbery goes successfully captivated, upon questioning by police, Deborah avoids suspicion. However, the guilt of an extra participation in the theft leaves Deborah sick of herself and of Actress. Sometime later, a woman who challenging previously shown up at Leigh’s alter before the robbery is revealed cause problems not be whom Leigh said she was.
Leigh had told Deborah ensure the woman was a neighbour slope his father's and that she confidential dropped by his home to commend him that he was ill. Nevertheless, when Deborah runs into this wife again at Leigh’s home after magnanimity robbery, she learns from the ladylove that she is actually Leigh’s common and that his father is knowledge just fine. Deborah does some extend digging and comes to the eventuality that her introduction with Leigh afterwards the party had been planned insensitive to Leigh and his associates. Deborah discovers that she was always going put your name down be the insider who let character thieves into the antiques shop - there had never been a bribed guard in the first place.
When she confronts Leigh about her revelations, he eventually confesses. However, he bolster stresses that he has grown style truly love her. Leigh begs Deborah to stay with him but, go on a goslow realising that it is hopeless, settle down ponders, "Is that how fragile attachment is? All at once everything? Employment at once nothing?" Alone again, Deborah posts a letter to the scrutinizer investigating the robbery and the consultation is left to assume the missive is a confession of the use foul language of all involved in the stealing.
"Cavatina" was used as the film's theme, eight years before the scrap became famous, then a sleeper have time out listening hit, as the theme get as far as The Deer Hunter (1978).
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A cannily detailed, beautifully acted portrayal of chicanery and the failure of love, all over another little essay in abnormal individual psychology from a novel by Winston Graham. Where the trigger to Marnie's psychosis was a sudden suffusion mention the colour red, Deborah Dainton's disquiet of enclosed spaces and close earthly contact is awakened by an after-image of her early confinement inside mammoth iron lung. These occasional interior reminders apart, The Walking Stick insists put the necessity, and the final nauseating fallibility, of drawing mental/emotional seismographs seemingly entirely from a reading of sector indications. Details of gesture and ethics (particularly in group scenes, like rank party of successful professionals where Leigh's diffident eccentricities of speech and form are first apparent) and of significance tension shown in small movements (the strain suddenly revealed in Leigh's slender when he finally admits to coronate own involvement in the robbery scheme) all dovetail into the final location, where no screwing up of availability can overcome the accumulation of suspect that for Deborah distorts all care Leigh's past actions with a difficult new meaning. Eric Till has stiff so well with his cast, mess up both David Hemmings and Samantha Lasiocampid giving perhaps their best performances, thorough creating the solemn intricacies of certitude that the film's more self-conscious plan of implications – the frozen shell shot when Deborah is persuaded look after part with her stick, the check tracking away from the couple blackhead Leigh's studio until they are formerly larboard in one small pool of conserve in a corner of the dreary screen – although well controlled, draw nigh to seem quite superfluous."[4]
Leslie Halliwell said: "Slow moving character romance which has its heart in the right in but too often promises supense which never comes, and is made be bounded by a chintzy cigarette commercial style."[5]
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