Movies

January, 1982

Transforming a London-Broadway the-atrical hit into a first-rate film is seldom easy, but director John Badham considerably surpasses the stage version of Brian Clark's Whose life Is It Anyway? (MGM). From a screenplay expertly Americanized by Reginald Rose (sharing credit with Clark), Badham asserts his identity as a moviemaker whose claim to fame was some what obscured by storms of stardust when he steered John Travolta through Saturday Night Fever. Here, in a role originated by England's Tom...