(Taylor and Dennis were among its five wins.)
Here are five reasons why the classic is worth revisiting or checking out for the first time.
Check out this scene just one among many for proof of the couple’s high-voltage electricity.
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Mike Nichols was famous as a comic performer and stage director but had never made a movie before.
Nichols died in 2014.
He happens to be imaginary.
Freud would certainly have something to say about that.
But the film’s black and white traps the characters within a dream-fugue state.
Once you’ve seen the movie, production stills in color like this one appear absurdly melodramatic and television-ish.
The studio did not agree.
“We went back and forth forever with all that s,” Nichols said.
“and finally [Jack Warner] said, all right, black and white.”
Wexler commented on the film in the great documentaryVisions of Light(beginning at 4:30 in the video).
