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Greer Garson is caught between three men; her cool but tightly wound, and condescending husband Flynn, her niece Janet Lee's swain, Robert Young, and the niece's bohemian artist father, Walter Pidgeon.

For me, Young is a weak link in this Quadrangle. His Character, a young architect, becomes in this script, an opportunist and a cad. He's not worthy of either Greer or Janet's love He loses sympathy here when he threatens to reveal his desire for Garson at the Niece's engagement party.

Garson is fine in this, so is Pidgeon. But Flynn is the revelation. As in his final features, Roots of Heaven, and Sun Also Rises, Flynn demonstrates his abilities as far beyond Swashbuckling.

Where Kubrick's Barry Lyndon was a lovely coffee table book with endless narration, The Duellist is not only beautiful to look at, and memorably played, it honors Joseph Conrad's fact based story. Kubrick merely used Thackeray to map his film.

This was Scott's first major full length film, but he assembled a marvelous cast and crew to acheive this stunninng film.

Kettle and Caradine are supported by pros such as Albert Finney, Tom Conti, Robert Stevens, Alan.

When I first saw GSET, projected on a Cinerama screen, in 1965, I was 14 In the beginning, I thought I was witnessing a modern day religious event. But later on, even with a strong core cast, the magnificent cinematography, authentic costumes & settings , stereophonic sound, & heavenly music, I was distracted by the many scattered cameos. E.G. John Wayne as the crucifying centurion, Carol Baker as Veronica and Pat Boone as an angel etc, which upstaged the substance of Stevens' considerable efforts. I heard later, that after so many set backs ( terrible weather, death of D.P. Bill Mellor, overrun$ on the budget) Stevens brought in the star cameos to secure extra backing. But one cannot fault the sincerity and conviction in the acting of Von Sydow as J.C. Claude Rains as Herod, David McCallum as Judus, Ferrer as Antipas, or Telly Savalas as Pilot.