I came across this movie late one night/early morning on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and loved it. Oliver Reed is simply wonderful. He may come across as a â brute at first. Hey what are you going to do when you live in the wilds o... (read more) I came across this movie late one night/early morning on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and loved it. Oliver Reed is simply wonderful. He may come across as a â brute at first. Hey what are you going to do when you live in the wilds of Northern Canada and need a wife? Buy her of course!

What the movie portrays is that Reeds character is actually trying to find someone to love and share his life with. Also that both the characters Reed and Tushingham portray have to learn to trust and accept each other. The performances from both Reed and Tushingham are great, but with his leading lady mute Reed did a lot of work! The scene when he calls out her name as she was running away is the best in the film! So lovely and sad. Sends a chill through me.

Do you think I can purchase this film in Australia?! Thank goodness it was on (yet again, ABC does tend to show the same movie over and over) and I was able to tape it. One of my all time favourite films!

Oliver Reed does his best performance ever in my opinion.
Playing a man, who buys a wife, expects her to do her duties as women are nothing more than a commodity,but of course has to learn that he can`t treat her however he wants and eventually sees... (read more) Oliver Reed does his best performance ever in my opinion.
Playing a man, who buys a wife, expects her to do her duties as women are nothing more than a commodity,but of course has to learn that he can`t treat her however he wants and eventually sees her as his equal.
Rita Tushingham is also breathtaking. Playing a mute, all her lines are given with facial expressions and in my opinion, she says more by raising an eye-brow than most Shakespeare actors do with an entire monologe.