Product Details

• Actors: Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger, Brenda De Banzie, Donald Houston
• Directors: Guy Green
• Writers: Charles E. Israel, Sidney Buchman, Stanley Mann
• Producers: Raymond Stross
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Vci/Ffi
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 127 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305067341
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #319,059 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Item Name: The Mark - Special Edition; Studio: Vci Video

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fine Movie, little known, August 24, 2010

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Good Memory Gal (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Mark - Special Edition (DVD)

Stuart Whitman received an Academy Award for his performance as a guilt-ridden child molester. He revealed a sensitivity which was never seen again in his Westerns.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars well acted and thought provoking, May 19, 2006

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R. J. Claster "rjclaster" (Van Nuys, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Mark - Special Edition (DVD)

Very fine acting thoughout and well done in that it enables you to empathize with someone who came close to committing an act that would place him in the minds of many people on a lower, more subhuman plane than a cold blooded murderer.

But was this person truly a pedophile? After all, he did not molest the girl child when he easily could have done so, and, if memory serves me correctly, returned her to the place where he abducted her. Moreover, the film suggests that he was moved to commit this act by his feelings of indequacy and inhibition with mature women, not because he really sexually preferred children, or even that he was necessarily attracted that way to children at all. On the other hand, maybe many people in the early sixties thought that men became pedophiles simply because they couldn't cut the mustard with women rather than being fundamentally more attracted to children than adults. One might ask in light of today's knowledge about child molesters whether it is psychologically possible for someone to molest a child primarily out of feelings of inadequacy and inhibition towards mature adults rather than genuine sexual attraction to children? Food for thought.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unforgettable, June 11, 1999

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Jonathan Bryce ([e-mail]) (Wellington, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Mark [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I have seen this movie once, in a cheap hotel on a business trip, late at night, over ten years ago. I remember it still. The movie covers the offence, treatment and rehabilitation of a paedophile. Be warned, it is not to everyone's taste. I discussed it with friends who were violently opposed to the subject. Me too, but the movie is still riveting - and unique (in my experience). It leaves the final question to answer yourself - can such an offender be cured?