Response
The film opened to mostly mixed to negative reviews - many felt that the film was inferior to the 1946 version, and wondered why the setting was inexplicably changed from Los Angeles, California to London, England. While some critics thought the film better captured the dark touches of Chandler's novel, they felt director Michael Winner didn't give the film the edge that Dick Richards had given Farewell, My Lovely three years prior.
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Famous quotes containing the word response:
“Because humans are not alone in exhibiting such behavior—bees stockpile royal jelly, birds feather their nests, mice shred paper—it’s possible that a pregnant woman who scrubs her house from floor to ceiling [just before her baby is born] is responding to a biological imperative . . . . Of course there are those who believe that . . . the burst of energy that propels a pregnant woman to clean her house is a perfectly natural response to their mother’s impending visit.”
—Mary Arrigo (20th century)
“The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“There is ... but one response possible from us: Force, Force to the uttermost, Force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make Right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)