The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)

I gotta tell you... I don't get it. Now listen, I love Maximilian Schell, but this was stagey, and the emotions and dialogue feel like very overblown theatre at all times. For me this did not work.

Why did I watch this? Good question. It was a part of a series in the 1970s of plays made into films that played a very limited run in theatres. But Schell was nominated for an Oscar for this (in the same year Glenda Jackson was nominated for her performance in Hedda and James Whitmore was nominated for his performance in Give 'Em Hell Harry! – both of which are also plays and neither of which I've seen) so I'm getting started on watching these 1975 performances, especially now since The Man in the Glass Booth, after being unavailable for many years, appeared on YouTube recently.