A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Films of Tennessee Williams' plays now often look very artificial and overwrought, but with this Huston came up with one of the best.
– ,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
Mr. Huston has got some scenic beauty of the Mexican coast here and there in black-and-white. But the setting, at the last, becomes monotonous -- just like the all-talk, no-play film.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
rotten:
No one but Tennessee Williams could have concocted it, but anyone other than John Huston should have directed it.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
5 May 2008
fresh:
Direction by John Huston is resourceful and dynamic as he sympathetically weaves together the often-vague and philosophical threads that mark Tennessee Williams' writing.