The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, a centenarian, reaches to the world beyond for this story of mad love and self-consuming art, set in the rustic realms of the Douro wine country.

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As laceratingly first-rate as Schulberg's writing and Kazan's direction were, the film would not have worked had the lead actor failed to be convincing as a person whose hungers were so self-centered and all-consuming that he would do anything and step on anyone to get what he wanted.

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These are people coming in, with self-inflicted illness, who are dying in front of my eyes - consuming alcohol as a pleasure, not realising the enormous damage it is doing to them.

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Hence national self-sufficiency is, then and now, pointless and irrelevant to any consuming nation's security.

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