Saw it again - my opinion is even higher. Masterpiece. Beautifully directed. And acted.
I love how the film doesn't play for sympathy. Diana Dors did it. She had a husband, cheated on him. Doesn't care about her husband or family, finds them annoying. Finds a little old lady who visits death row people annoying.
Love the Greek chorus of the warden. Yvonne Mitchell, a favourite of J. Lee Thompson is the most notable but also there's others.
Full of wonderful details - the anxious waiting for a reprieve, never ending tension, the final cigarettes.
Dors is magnificent - her sense of defeat, her exhaustion, her determined independence, her love for Michael Craig (who is excellent, as the self-pitying loser).
It's a fantastic movie.
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