Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic wrote about Bartleby- "a poor film but with superb acting in it". Scofield.gives a supremely intelligent portrayal of a man caught between logic and emotion." The TV Guide reviewer commented that "the film is brooding, slow, and annoying at times, but the vision of McEnery as Bartleby is not easily forgotten. A successful lawyer on Wall Street hires Bartleby, a scrivener, to relieve the load of work experienced by his law firm. Rosalind Elliot - Miss Brown - Secretary Trish Loughran identiies a similar occurrence in the publication of Benito Cereno, noticing that, the narrative caesurae that interrupt each section would appear to be as purposefully staged by Melville as many of the San Dominick’s spectacles are staged by Babo.The sets were designed by the art director Simon Holland.īartleby, a young audit clerk, is defeated by the pressures of modern life he gradually opts out of all forms of social engagement and withdraws into his own world. It was shot at Twickenham Studios and on location around London. The film relocates the narrative from New York in the 1850s to London in the 1970s. It is an adaptation of the short story " Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-street" by Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the. Bartleby is a 1970 British drama film directed by Anthony Friedman and starring Paul Scofield, John McEnery and Thorley Walters.
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