National Review, November 10th, 1997
HENRY James's early novel Washington Square, adapted by Ruth and Augustus Goetz as The Heiress, was a Broadway hit in 1947 with Wendy Hiller and Basil Rathbone. An equally effective movie version of it (1949) was directed by William Wyler and starred Olivia de Havilland, Ralph Richardson, and Montgomery Clift. The play was successfully revived a couple of seasons ago with Cherry Jones superb in the title role. After all this, the new movie directed by Agnieszka Holland, and reverting to the original title, Washington Square, comes as an anticlimax, even though it sticks closer to James's text....
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