“I like filmed theatre; I think there is a charge and a glamour about filmed plays and revues and vaudeville and music hall that one rarely gets from adaptations of novels or from those few screen ‘originals.’ Filmed plays are often denigrated, somewhat dishonestly, by people who learn a little cant about what is said to be proper to the film medium and forget about the pleasure they’ve been getting from filmed plays all their lives.”
Pauline Kael, “Filmed Theatre” (The New Yorker, Jan. 11, 1969, courtesy of Jason Zinoman)