The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)

And There Was No Music At The End

“It’s an ‘adventure’ story, albeit a more serious and political one than some are—although almost any adventure story has a sort of muted politics to it, more so than if you stay at home. 

It’s the sort of movie which is better than the Mr Collins/Catherine de Bourgh crowd will say; I liked it at least as well as “The Lillies of the Field”, the more famous Ralph Nelson/Sidney Poiters collaboration…. It just seemed more honest. 

Movies are short, like novellas, so it can be hard to squeeze in all the angles of ambiguity of real life, that and society can’t change all its assumptions at once, basically, but, I don’t know. You can criticize or second-guess, but to me this is a good movie. It has a message. And it’s fun…. 

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