Pretentious & Dull - worth giving a miss!

I missed this movie when it came out, to good reviews, back in the 60s and so I waited some 40 years to see it. What a disappointment and what a waste of good actors it turned out to be! The story line is dull beyond belief, the dialogue is artificial, not one of the characters arouses one’s sympathy or interest and there is a general air of pretentious self-congratulation about the whole production. Added to this is a ghastly, caterwauling music score, which wails away throughout the movie like a cat with stomach ache and seems to have been bolted-on without any regard as to whether it added to the overall mood or was relevant to any part of the action. Life is too short to waste watching such rubbish - give it a miss!