The Human Jungle (TV Series) The Man Who Fell Apart (1964) User Reviews

One 70s film that does work !

[jefadlm-1 · 8/10 · 18 January 2022]

Open minded viewers not seeking wrongs, rights, ups n' downs , only surprising to see only 1 reviewer, and negative at that ?

Roy Baker was a well weathered warts included, thoughtful director. And here he shows that skillfully, narratively and technically !

Ms. Tushingham never better as in this instance. And the rest of cast all very believable. The first and most important element of a good story is that the viewer does actually care about all the characters and their dilemma ? Here we have a seemingly impossible triangle, to which there does not seem a simple solution ? Anyone who claims that the conclusion was obvious, perhaps had little or no empathy for these intelligent , people with all their confusing emotional baggage on brutal display ? Think , if you are a young or soon to be middle aged woman , as 2 points in the triangle , what could you, or would you do (legally without prejudice.) to find a civilized solution ? And if you happen to be a male viewer, would you be the weaker character or the stronger one ?

My personal answer , is if we are true and understand the value of loyalty , this scenario would be unacceptable, therefore not occur ?

The Man Who Fell Apart

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 17 November 2022]

Final story of The Human Jungle and an unusual case for Dr Corder.

There is a horrible dilemma for interior designer Patrick Grant (Alan Dobie.)

His wife Catherine becomes worried about him after he has an altercation with a coal merchant. Maybe he is overworked with so many projects on the go or that his wife is spending lavishly.

Patrick tells Dr Corder that he keeps having dreams involving dogs. Dr Corder discovers that Patrick is seeing another woman.

Patrick later admits that he met a young woman called Joy (Rita Tushingham) after he ran over her dog. He learns that she is vulnerable after having lost members of her family and her boyfriend.

He is afraid of what would happen to Joy if he leaves her. Patrick is divided between his wife and children. As well his mistress who he learns is also pregnant.

I was surprised more psychological insights were not provided by Dr Corder as Joy would had been a very compelling patient for him to treat.

In the end it was what would complete Joy as a person and it would not be Patrick.

Too much Soap opera

[westernone · 4/10 · 26 August 2013]

In this, the final installment, we really see why this series didn't go on. In the first season, the 1963 episodes, there were more striking representations of interesting psychological conditions that Corder had to first divine from symptoms manifested by patients' bizarre behaviour, which was the fun of the whole show, and then his efforts to cure this condition. The second lot was far more softer, and wordier, and ever more melodramatic, as if aiming for the women's serials fan especially. In this last episode, the Doctor is barely in it, sort of a friend of the family, offering advice. It's all about the domestic intranquillity of a man cheating on his wife, how it all blows up when the girl he's seeing gets pregnant, and how the demons of illegitimacy and divorce are to be dealt with.It's all soggy Victoriana, and the ever-annoying Miss Tushingham doesn't make it any better.