Richard Burton: In from the Cold.Richard Burton: In from the Cold.Richard Burton: In from the Cold.
Richard Burton
- Self
- (archive footage)
Catherine Jenkins
- Self
- (as Catherine Jenkins)
David Jenkins
- Self
- (as David Jenkins)
Verdun Jenkins
- Self
- (as Verdun Jenkins)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Self
- (as Joseph Mankiewicz)
Marian Mastroianni
- Self
- (as 'Marian Mastroianni)
Hilda Owen
- Self
- (as Hilda Owen)
Storyline
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Celebrated and award winning though this may be, I found it lacking in direction and cohesion and a tendency towards haphazardness. I cannot imagine why director, Tony Palmer would have been restricted in his choice of participants but the largely motley crew assembled here seem to create more problems than they solve. The erudite Melvyn Bragg, himself a biographer of Burton seems relegated to simply have pieces of his interview cut to repudiate the seeming ignorant nonsense spouted by Lauren Bacall, who sneers and snarls her way through an interview she seems to imagine should really have been about her. The film clips are okay, with Cleopatra looking particularly fine but the many other historical epic bits and pieces rather lost amid the wondrous experts from the likes of Look Back in Anger and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. There is early footage from Welsh days that is interesting and contributions from family members that is okay but for a two hour documentary with so much material to hand, this is a stage fixated luvvie affair that does the great man very little justice. Shame.
- christopher-underwood
- Nov 11, 2020
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- Runtime2 hours 6 minutes
- Color
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