Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 5. 1967.
"Morgan" the best
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"Morgan" the best
Shortly after Anderson's film was screened here, I saw Schlesinger's bittersweet fantasy, Billy Liar, The free cinema group and its fringe members were not entirely beyond redemption after all. Now we have Morgan which. I am pleased to say, is the best film yet made by one of these directors, and easily the most interesting film to have come from Britain in the last year. On reflection, this last status is not as impressive as it looks, but this does not detract from Reisz'a considerable achievement Morgan is everything that the dregs of the kitchen-sink dramas are not—witty, sad, fast-moving and possessed of a wild and wonderful anarchic spirit