The Killing of Sister George R
The story of three consenting adults in the privacy of their own home.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 27, 2018
- Originally Released: 1968
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Beryl Reid, Susannah York & Coral Browne | |
Performer: | Ronald Fraser, Patricia Medina & Cyril Delevanti | |
Directed by | Robert Aldrich | |
Edited by | Michael Luciano | |
Screenplay by | Lukas Heller | |
Composition by | Gerald Fried | |
Art Direction by | William Glasgow | |
Produced by | Robert Aldrich | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph F. Biroc |
Entertainment Reviews:
It's Beryl Reid and Susannah York drifting dismasted towards caricature.
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The Spectator
Rating: C+ --
More wearisome than appealing.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
Excellently acted version of the play is finally rather dull.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Melodrama, slapstick, romance, exploitation, and psychological horror all vie for dominance throughout the film, giving it an air of fickle, feminine hysteria, which the graphic sex scene at the end of the film makes still more difficult to pin down.
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Reverse Shot
Rating: B --
Because of its outre subject of lesbianism and one sexually graphic scene, Aldrich's well acted, lurid melodrama was slapped with X-rating upon its release.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Aldrich's film endures not because it's an example of bad, pre-Stonewall homo images but because of its sly way of celebrating.
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Film Comment Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Quase um Quem Tem Medo de Virginia Woolf? lésbico, este é um filme denso, muitas vezes desagradável como sua protagonista (Reid, fantástica), mas sempre instigante e corajoso.
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Product Description:
In Robert Aldrich's taboo-shattering adaptation of Frank Morse's play, June (Beryl Reed) is a lesbian who plays the part of a nun, Sister George, on a successful television soap opera. Her world collapses when the show's executive director, Mercy Croft (Coral Browne), decides to kill off June's character. As she searches for another acting job, she begins to abuse her lover, Alice (Susannah York), and spirals into a self-destructive free fall. The precociously frank and sultry depiction of June's sexuality earned the film an X rating in many places upon its initial release. Though time has muted the once-controversial aspects of THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE, it remains a historically resonant film, offering the first Hollywood depiction of a woman completely at ease with her love of other women. Reid turns in a brave and moving performance, infusing this landmark of lesbian cinema with an enduring, humane radiance.
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