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Five Finger Exercise (1962)
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Frances Goodrich (writer)
Albert Hackett (writer)
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8 October 1962 (Sweden) more
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There are many kinds of love...But is there any without guilt?
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A long-married couple are at war with each other and with their teenage son and daughter. The presence... more | add synopsis
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Misguided film of a wonderful play. more (1 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Rosalind Russell | ... | Louise Harington |
 | Jack Hawkins | ... | Stanley Harrington |
| Richard Beymer | ... | Philip Harrington |
| Maximilian Schell | ... | Walter |
| Annette Gorman | ... | Pamela Harrington |
| William Kerwin | ... | Mark |
| Lana Wood | ... | Mary |
| Todd Armstrong | ... | Tony Blake |
| Terry Huntingdon | ... | Helen |
| Bill Quinn | ... | Salesman |
| Kathy West | ... | Alice |
| Mary Benoit | ... | Woman |
| Bart Conrad | ... | Announcer |
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109 min
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Canada:PG (Ontario) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
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When Rosalind Russell is in a record store, there is a record cover behind her - it's "Auntie Mame". more
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Version of "BBC Play of the Month: Five Finger Exercise (#6.4)" (1970) more
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What a terrible shame that this film of Peter Shaffer's amazing play was turned into an uneventful melodrama. The amazing dynamics of the five character's interaction on-stage, has been reduced in the film to a domestic, "kitchen sink" drama. Perhaps the close of the Second World War was too close at hand for the film maker and the studio to really trust the power of the play and the horrors of the Nazi Germany. The English family is American in the film, which takes most of the punch from the drama, and the erotic undercurrents of the mother /son relationship pitched against the German tutor, Walter have been set aside. With the raw emotional core of the drama removed, what sadly remains is a stereotypical, Hollywood drama with little true emotion and a film that sadly serves the startling brilliance of the play.