简介：DirectorArthurHiller(LoveStory,SilverStreak),workingfromscreenwriterEdwardAnhalt's(Becket)adaptation,transformsactor-playwrightRobertShaw'sTheManintheGlassBoothintoafilmtheLosAngelesTimesdubbed,"daring,outrageous,utterlyprovocative,endlesslyambiguousandstrikinglyeffective." MillionaireJewishentrepreneurArthurGoldman(MaximilianSchell)benvolentlyruleshisfinancialempirefromapenthouseapartmentoverlookingManhattan.Seeminglyattheedgeofsanity,GoldmanholdsforthoneverytingfromPapaledictstoex-wives,frombaseballtohisfamily'smassacreinaNaziconcentrationcamp.WhenGoldmanremarksonablueMercedescontinuouslyparkedoutsidehisbuilding,Goldman'scaptiveaudienceofassistant(LawrencePressman)andchauffeur(HenryBrown)dismisstheirboss'anxietyasencroachingparanoia.ButeachofGoldman'spassionate,seeminglycapriciousravingsaretransformedintoashocking,inadvertentdepositionwhenIsraeliagentscaptureGoldmanandputhimontrialasAdolphDorf,thecommandantoftheconcentrationcampwhereGoldman'sfamilywassupposedlyexterminated.Inatrialsceneofunrelentingintensity,AcademyAward©winnerSchell(JudgementatNuremberg)craftswhattheDetroitFreePresscalled"awhite-hotleadperformance,"mutatingfromeccentricGoldmantosociopathDorfandbeyond.TheriddleofDorf'strueidentitybecomeswrappedinanenigmaofcunningself-treacheryandsingle-mindedobsession. VeterancinematographerSamLeavittenablesHillertocoaxavividlypersonalandelectrifyingintelligentdualportraitoutofSchell.TheManintheGlassBoothisatimelessdramaofsurprisingintimacyandindefatigablecourage,"possessing,"declaredtheLosAngelesTimes,"aremarkablyresilientsenseoflightnessforalltheprofoundquestionsitponders."…