USA,
1964, 100 min
Shown in 1964
CREDITS
- dir
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Irvin Kershner
- prod
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Leon Roth, F.R. Crawley
- scr
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Brian Moore
- cam
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Manny Wynn
- editor
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Antony Gibbs
- mus
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Bernardo Segall
- cast
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Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Liam Redmond, Tom Harvey, Libby McClintock, Leo Leyden, Powys Thomas, Tom Kneebone
- prod co
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Crawley Films; Roth-Kershner Productions
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COMMENTS
Irvin Kershner and Leon Roth in person.
OTHER
If anyone has any doubt these days that a marriage cannot subsist on love alone, let him watch this story with a wary eye. For here are two people who are madly in love with each other—Ginger Coffey and his wife Vera—and they have lived long enough together to have a teenage daughter, but they cannot make it. For the "luck" that Ginger Coffey has is all bad: He is a man who cannot cope—cannot get a decent job or hold a poor one; who has charm and manliness and Irish blarney and believes that what is wrong is that he never had a break. That is not what is wrong at all but the lengths to which people can go to deceive themselves—out of the best motives in the world—is what the Irish call a "caution." This is not to say that Ginger Coffey doesn't try. Maybe he tries too hard.
—Alvah Bessie
FACTOID #304
After its U.S. premiere at the 1969 Festival, the print of Z by Costa-Gavras was stolen from the locked projection room of the Masonic Auditorium.
