It’s a rampaging role, but Torn doesn’t seem to be afraid of anything, and he gives his character a pleasure in performance -- something that American actors rarely do.

Like any good Hollywood suffering artist [she] goes and walks through a thunderstorm for 10 minutes and then conies in. dripping wet, to type out her first masterpiece.

Ritt is an able and honourable film-maker but when his heart is on his sleeve like this, the result tends to be the kind of liberal Hollywood movie that looks and tastes like fudge.

Pleasing and picturesque.