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The swirl of anxiety plays out too patly in Jim Strouse's script, but the performers, especially Ms. Martindale and the jittery Mr. Copley, keep it enjoyable, even touching at times.
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For example, Johnson argues that Sense and Sensibility is a critique of primogeniture and the arbitrariness of property inheritance. She contends that the novel is not, as it is often assumed to be, "a dramatized conduct book patly favoring female prudence over female impetuosity".Johnson, 49–50.
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Chicago Tribune. Section 2, page 5. Howard Thompson of The New York Times described the film as "genteel, sweet-natured and appealingly frail," but thought the story "gets a little patly philosophical in trying to thrust practical responsibilities on the young hero, Bill Mumy, and his carefree, widowed father, Steve Forrest."Thompson, Howard (October 30, 1969).
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When the film was released, The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther gave the picture a negative review, writing: > "There is reasonable ground for suspicion that the people who made The > Unsuspected thought that they were fashioning another Laura, popular mystery > of a few years back... But, beyond a brisk flurry of excitement and > wickedness at the start, it bears little showmanly resemblance to that > previous top-drawer effort in this line... (T)he yarn gets away temptingly. > Once launched, however, it starts leaking, pulling apart at the seams, and > generally foundering in a welter of obvious contrivances and clichés... > Claude Rains is intriguing as the fashionable radio ghoul and Michael North, > a new young actor, looks good as the lad who 'breaks' the case. However, the > rest of the performers... are as patly artificial as the plot."Crowther, > Bosley.
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