100 Years of⊠He Who Gets Slapped
Itâs 100 years old, at least, He Who Gets Slapped. Which helps explain a title that would be laughed out of the first production meeting these days. âHe WhoâŠ? He Who?â Sounds like an old car changing gear. As for the rest of it, it wouldnât pass muster either. Way, way too unsettling, grim and dour for our times. Though it might make a nicely dark horror movie. Hereâs a film that was praised to the skies when it came out. The New York Times thought it was âperfectâ⊠and a âfaultless adaptationâ of the original hit play (which had transferred from Russia to Broadway and become a hit all over again), and that … Read more