Revenge (1971 film)

Revenge is a 1971 British thriller film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Joan Collins, James Booth and Sinéad Cusack.

Tom Marshall, Zuleika Robson and Donald Morley had their voices dubbed, by Nicky Henson, Michele Dotrice and Garfield Morgan respectively.

[citation needed] Producer George Brown called it "a story about everyday people who take one fatal step in search of human justice.

[citation needed] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Peter Rogers owes his fame to the Carry On series, and his reputation for making people laugh will doubtless be consolidated by this abortive melodrama.

The grotesque improbability of the relationships (Atreus' house was no match for this) is further highlighted by the matter-of-fact suburban dialogue, with characters seriously suggesting nice cups of tea as antidotes to every excess of grief, lust and violence, and Joan Collins' put-upon housewife declaring 'I don't know what's come over us', as she eagerly submits to her stepson's rape.

This picture, full of ingenious twists and turns, has a good catch of red-herrings that, satisfyingly, manage to be fully justified and misleading at the same time.

"[9] David McGillivray wrote in the Radio Times: "what begins as a serious examination of a growing social problem becomes increasingly melodramatic, ending in a blaze of hysterical shrieking and stabbing.