Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown - Peter William Evans (BFI Film Classics) Film Studies Robert Mitchum stars as an

Robert Mitchum stars as an aging gunrunner operating at street level in Boston's criminal underworld - his professional orbit made up of 'bottom rung' mobsters

a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility

One of the major figures in twentieth century American cinema takes us through the filmmaking process from script to final screening

Starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave

Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown - Peter William Evans (BFI Film Classics) Film Studies Robert Mitchum stars as an'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breaksown by Peter William Evans (BFI Film Classics paperback) An analysis of Almodovar's international breakthrough film which explores its insights into gender and sexuality. Evans also discusses the film in the context of the social revolution which took place in Spain following the death of Franco.