8 SEPTEMBER 1973, page 25

Cinema

Sam and Billy Christopher Hudson Sam Peckinpah is an unpredicta ble film-maker. He made that un deniably impressive Western, The Wild Bunch, tightly-controlled and powerful in......

Opera

Too little, too late Rodney Milnes While cheerfully joining the Chor us of welcome for Scottish Opera on their first London visit, I ° lily question why in eleven years......

Ballet

Conspicuous absences Robin Young London Festival Ballet are at a critical turn in their crisis-ridden history. Not the first time of course, nor, I'm glad to say, is it at all......

Will Waspe

In my fervour to see good in everything, I may just possibly have been wrong last week in attributing those laudatory remarks about Antony and Cleopatra in the Evening......