Ken Stott

A television role of Ken Stott's becomes, in one archive text, the measure of how a cinema film will be received. Richard Falcon, writing on a German film about Hitler's last days, says British viewers arrive at it fresh from two television plays, and notes that Stott had played the Führer's relation in one of them. Philip Strick finds a noble-bandit film reduced to a noisy rumpus, with no more left to Stott than popping an eyeball or two. Richard Kelly, on The Debt Collector, describes his angry policeman: he looks at first to be on an honest Presbyterian crusade, and then everything in Neilson's writing conspires to unhinge him.