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Review
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Trenchant "comedy" about a girl-woman married to a pathetic
loser and seduced by her husband's competitor the day
after he torches the man's cotton gin. This is supposed
to be a comedy, Tennessee Williams style, and I have to
wonder if southerners understand something about their own
culture that makes this film funny. There is so much sexual
intensity between the girl and Vaccaro, and the husband,
Archie, is such a snivelling wimp of a loser that the
comedy is debased and the film is more interesting as a
study of sexual repression and sadism than a parody of
southern manhood. The acting is good, the cinematography is
far too weighty for its subject, and the dialogue is
interesting if dissatisfying.
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