David Denby

“Beautiful kate Nelligan, who has appeared mainly on stage and TV (she was the star of the ‘Masterpiece Theatre’ Therése Raquin), is a dream of English womanhood—gentle and frank, sturdy and strong and certainly not ‘clever,’ yet passionately bold when aroused. When Lucy begins to suspect what a murderous beast Faber is, she has to decide between trusting him and going after him with a gun. Gallant Lucy could be the heroine of every second-rate gothic novel ever written, yet Nelligan transcends what’s conventional in the plot: The full range of her sensuality is engaged in everything she does, and she’s mesmerizing. Nelligan’s sweet tenderness—the flesh that photographs like an erotic dream—has already caused men on both sides of the Atlantic to fall into happy trances. She could be that rare creature in contemporary meovies—a trulyl romantic actress.”

David Denby
New York, August 10, 1981
(from my note card)