Past-present-future collage adapted from Ray Bradbury's collection of stories centering on tattooed man's vendetta against the woman who covered his body with permanent artwork. Highly uneven and cold film, ultimately unsatisfying. Despite Rod Steiger's apparent lust for the ladies, there's an odd undercurrent of homo-eroticism running throughout (at one point, he grabs a young man and pulls him up off the ground, and it's a bit like a scene out of Steiger's "The Sergeant"). The picture isn't even well-made, with odd locations that don't help us to get our bearings and brackish cinematography. *1/2 from ****
Review of The Illustrated Man
