The Other

Name: The Other
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: May 26, 1972
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Chris Udvarnoky, Diana Muldaur, Jenny Sullivan, Loretta Leversee, Lou Frizzell

1972

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Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: May 26, 1972 | PG

Starring: Chris Udvarnoky, Diana Muldaur, Jenny Sullivan, Loretta Leversee, Lou Frizzell, Martin Udvarnoky, Norma Connolly, Portia Nelson, Uta Hagen, Victor French

Summary: A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.

Director: Robert Mulligan

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: PG

Runtime: 108 min

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An outstanding example of topflight writing structure and dialog, enhanced to full fruition by a knowing director. Read full review

The Guardian Philip French

Mulligan knows how to lead us up and down the garden paths of his bucolic world, and as with Psycho you need a second viewing to appreciate the various skills that have gone into this movie. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Director Robert Mulligan does an excellent job of evoking both the historical period and the terror, aided greatly by Robert Surtees' fine photography. The performances from the Udvarnoky twins are nuanced and memorable. Well worth seeing. Read full review

Roger Ebert

The Other, which is based on the novel by former actor Tom Tryon (you saw him as The Cardinal), has been criticized in some quarters because Mulligan made it too beautiful, they say, and too nostalgic. Not at all. His colors are rich and deep and dark, chocolatey browns and bloody reds; they aren’t beautiful but perverse and menacing. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

As so often with this director's work, the film is craftsmanlike rather than brilliant, but the performances, Robert Surtees' lush camerawork, and Mulligan's solid psychological insights make for thoughtful, sometimes even chilling, entertainment. Read full review

Judith Christ

There is a consistency of character, time and place that properly compliments the plotting and is admirable enough to almost - but not quite - make us forgive the loose ends and missing links. [29 May 1972, p.71]

Vincent Canby

Thomas Tryon, the actor (The Cardinal), wrote the screen adaptation of his best-selling novel, which is in almost every way more precise, more complex and less ambiguous than the "Summer of '35" sort of movie Robert Mulligan has made from it. Read full review

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codyz

Aug 21, 2023

I saw this movie a long time ago. This time I thought it was more disturbing than shocking. The creepiness is seeing the reactions of the kid's family, the looks of horror on the faces of his mom and grandmother. Those haunting images and all the horrible things that happen, are veryI saw this movie a long time ago. This time I thought it was more disturbing than shocking. The creepiness is seeing the reactions of the kid's family, the looks of horror on the faces of his mom and grandmother. Those haunting images and all the horrible things that happen, are very unsettling.… Expand

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