Constructed around a few
locations (including Stevens» own home for Anne's gilded prison) and a cast of four central characters and
shot in an economical ten days, it is both a
handsome production (
shot by veteran, Oscar - nominated DP Ted McCord sometime between Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Sound of Music, and camera operator Conrad Hall) and a visually evocative world taut with palpable tension and he orchestrates the quartet nicely.