The Walking Stick

Samantha Eggar Shines in Suspense Film
It was a stellar year for film as this film, "The Walking Stick" was released in 1969 or 1970 and the list of stunning films goes on almost as memorable as 1939. The difference was many of these films became classics without being good films. Films were looked at as art. It was quite a time for Samantha Eggar as well as she did "The Molly Maguires" opposite Sean Connery prior and followed this with one of her better performances as the heroine of the movie version of Sebastien Japrisot's book, "The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun" opposite Oliver Reed (who she later starred opposite in 1979 in a comeback in David Croenberg's "The Brood"). Her co-star in "The Walking Stick" is David Hemmings who was having surprising success in films as a leading man after Antonioni's "Blow-Up" considering his looks and build and their chemistry together is quite good. Written by George Bluestone, the film is based on a rather good Winston Graham novel (Graham was responsible for a number of...

Great!
This is a wonderful movie, although if you have read the book, you will have to put it out of your mind when you see the film. Thematically, the movie is not on very firm ground, relative to the book. However, Samantha Eggar is just great, and I wouldn't change the film because she is so good in it.

I really just wanted to write a review because this is an on-demand film, burned to order. The quality is fantastic. I was concerned at spending the asking price for burn-on-demand, but I couldn't ask for better. I played it on an HDTV, and it was film-quality. I don't know what technique was used to make the print, but it justifies the price.

The movie "The Walking Stick" involves a tragic love affair betrayal and a surprise ending.
The movie "The Walking Stick" is an intriguing story where a beautiful young women stricken with polio who is employed by a prestigious antique auction house, is coerced into participating in a robbery. Deborah Dainton is a crippled woman played by Samantha Eggar whose main purpose in life is her job, until a young man named Leigh Hartley played by David Hemmings comes into her life. Leigh proceeds to charm Deborah off her feet and she is happy for the first time, Leigh tricks her into getting involved in a robbery of the business where she works. She then discovers that Leigh has been lying to her all through the romance. The acting is excellent with Samantha Eggar giving an especially skilled performance. The movie is well worth watching.

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