This version of the play features an excellent cast and a surprisingly convincing Mel Gibson in the leading role. He can do the verse as well as the rest of them and is not the embarrassment to watch his inhibited style usually makes of him. Presumably, he felt he had to give of his best in this movie, otherwise he would look a complete fool among such topflight talent? Given that possibility, he does indeed manage to be the emotionally affecting core to director Franco Zeffirelli's version of the timeless tale of the ultimate dysfunctional and self destructive family.
The ending to this filmed drama is an excellent exemplar of the following:
For ’tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoisted with his own petard.
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