The Long View
It's 43 years since this acclaimed drama was released; I was a 20-yr old uni student when it came out, yet only saw it for the first time this Month (Mar 2008). Back then, I remember thinking it might have been made in response to the recent suicide of Marilyn Monroe.
A gripping story! The film is slightly stagey by today's tastes, yet powerfully affecting, especially in the sharp writing & in the two lead performances.
Fascinating to see how physically tough it was to trace a phonecall back then, even though at the time the technology portrayed was state-of-the-art. Reminds me that we humans managed surprisingly well for most of our time on this earth, as a species with no cellphones!
Certainly worth viewing as a revealing, suspenseful interaction of two strangers who come to mean something unique to each other over a few intense hours on the brink of death. I am so glad to have found out what all the raves were about at the time.