The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) Reviews

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…. 

And, but—there is no music at the end. It’s perfect. You expect art to be predicable, I guess, if you’re not naive—but the ending was perfect. 

Credits roll in silence.