Peter O’Toole as a louche actor bringing Shakespeare to the masses is a delight. Billy Dee Williams has a cameo it’s too bad the ever-charismatic Williams wasn’t used more. Two standout portrayals are Philip Casnoff’s demented Elkanah Bent and Stan Shaw’s Isaac, a former slave whose freedom is short-lived but fiercely loved and protected. Garber’s road-show Scarlett O’Hara turn is an embarrassment. Same cannot be said for everyone involved in the production. There are some abrupt switches in camera angle and action, but Don Faunterloy’s camerawork is effective he knows when to go for the close-up and when to pull back, and, mercifully, he doesn’t shoot it like he’s just seen “Gone With the Wind.” Wolper/ABC production values are high, in some cases maybe too much so: The poverty-stricken Southerners dress and live awfully well immediately following the war.ĭirector Larry Peerce gets the most he can out of Suzanne Clauser’s limited script. The production does a good job of filling viewers in on what happened in the previous two parts of this saga. There are some nice touches, such as introducing the various locales with sepia-toned period snapshots before abruptly returning to color and action.
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