disgusting, overrated, pointless

Better Late Then Never

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

A Sad And Moving Story About An Eccentric Lonely Woman Who Believes She Is A Duchess, Whose Only Friends Are The Creaks And Leaks/Drips And Other Noises In Her Old Dusty Apartment She Imagines Are Voices Talking To Her ... Edith Evans Performance Of The Elderly Forgotten Mrs Ross Is Heartbreaking And Groundbreaking ... I Am Stunned At The Levels Of Sympathy I Felt For Her And Her Circumstances ... Her Mundane Life Is Turned Around By The Visit Of Her Good For Nothing Thieving Son And Later On By Her Estranged (Useless) Vagabond Husband ... It Saddens Me To Think That Although This Movie Was Released In 1967 "Mrs Ross" Is Representative Of A Huge Amount Of The Elderly World Wide Both Then And Now ... The Story Runs The Whole Of The Daily Life In A World Where The Poor Pray On Each Others ... Gerald Sim (Mr Conrad) Is Excellent As The Social Services Worker Who Has Adjusted To Mrs Ross' Imagination Yet Has Not Given Up On Her As A Human Being ... The Scenery Is Wonderful As It Truly Reflects The Hopeless World She Lives In ... Bryan Forbes Direction Is Brilliant In His Ability To Capture A World Gone Heartless And Yet Not Lose Sight Of It's Humanity ... Nominated for 1 Oscar, And Another 9 Wins With 3 Nominations ... This Is A MUST SEE Movie, If You Think (Because Of Movies You Have Seen Before) That An Old Woman With Nothing In The World Can Not Move Something Inside Of You, That You Have Forgotten Exist ... "You Are Wrong" ... IMDb Rates This Movie 7.2, Honestly I Could Not Live With Myself If I Gave It Anything Less Than A 9 Out Of 10 ... My IMDb Rating 10 Out Of 10

Dame Edith Evans wonderfully protrays a fragile human being at the end of her life. What you will come away with from this movie other than the beauty of her performance, is the base nature of most human beings. It is the perfect film for a psych student and is as relevant today as it was then. Human beings haven't changed--if anything, they are more so! What makes us tick is basic selfishness, ego and lust. We seldom truly love another person even when we think we do. Everything we build is for ourselves. All lovers of Ronald Reagan ought to be strapped in their seats for this one! They'll love seeing themselves. If you have longed to believe in the human race, DON'T see this film!! If the truth about us is too hard to take, DON'T see this film. If you feel you are a good person, DON'T see this film! It doesn't pretend to represent anything, it just is. If you think humanity is worth saving, SEE this film! Personally, I pray for global warming. We're just no damn good. We muck up everything and then complain about it.

Set amidst squalid Manchester backgrounds, an elderly British woman who lives alone and gets by on scraps is robbed and left for dead; she recovers in the hospital, and is eventually reunited with the husband who ran off and left her some years prior. Director Bryan Forbes, who also adapted his screenplay from the novel by Robert Nicolson, builds this material very slowly and steadily--but with no light relief or sense of recovery from its depressing milieu, the film doesn't seem to have a course to follow (the sequences just turn into incidents). Oscar-nominated Edith Evans, a marvelous actress who can do as much for a scene with no dialogue as some actors can with a soliloquy, works her aged vulnerability to its proper advantage. However, when the character returns home from her tragedy (rendered nearly mute by her experiences), she loses all her quirky personality. Similarly, Forbes (as the director) seems not to know where he is in the final quarter, and as the writer allows his narrative to slip away in little drabs. Well-enough made, but the general air of gloom and decay robs the picture of promise. There's no moral here (perhaps on purpose), and no point, either. ** from ****

There are many good qualities in this study of paranoia, loneliness, ageing and exploitation, among other themes, with its virtues ranging from a great mood setting score by John Barry, to excellent camera angles and aptly stark sets, all of which fit in with the general atmosphere of the film. In an Oscar nominated role, Edith Evans also gives off a fine performance, and there is some good work with extended dissolves to edit between different shots. It is not an easy film to like and admire in spite of its virtues though. There are excesses of melodrama thrown in, such as cops and robbers, and these subplots serve to distract from the protagonist. The lack of dialogue at times is distracting in itself too, and there are also odd characters in small segments thrown in here and there that do nothing at all. The dual spoken narration is also rather awkward. Yes, there are some things that can be complained about here - one could also complain that the nastiness is excessive. There is still a lot that makes this a good film however, and these virtues definitely show through. It is an excellent film, but it may not satisfy all tastes. Bryan Forbes is a great director, and almost all his films are worth a look if one is interested in good directing regardless of the plot or characters.