The Cross-Patch


The Cross-Patch or De Kribbebijter is a 1935 Dutch film directed by Henry Koster and Ernst Winar. It is based upon the play, "Willis Frau," by Max Reimann and Otto Schwartz.

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Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, describing it as "very badly photographed and very badly directed". Taking especial umbrage with the direction, Greene describes it as "that grim slow kind which never shows you a car without following it to the horizon or lets a character leave one room for another without a prolonged study of opening and closing, and then reopening and re-closing doors, with a glimpse of the passage perhaps as well, lest the imagination should bear too heavy a burden".