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And yet The Last Witchfinder is a rollicking, satiric, picaresque, and sometimes bawdy adventure.
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At one level The Last Witchfinder is about the historical clash between religion and science.
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Rich in detail, rollicking in style, and endlessly engaging, The Last Witchfinder is a tour de force of historical fiction.
The Last Witchfinder: Summary and book reviews of The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow. 2006
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Though similar to John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor in many respects, Witchfinder is warmer and more human.
The Last Witchfinder: Summary and book reviews of The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow. 2006
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It is in this unpredictable atmosphere that Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price), otherwise known as the Witchfinder General, travels from town to town along with his assistant Stearne (Robert Russell).
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From the full-back's wispy my-first-razor days, through what a friend describes as the Witchfinder General period, to the time when Neville threatened to pre-empt comedian Richard Herring and revive the Hitler look, to more recent times when Alex Ferguson's representative on earth has mostly favoured the neatly trimmed Soho ad man style complete with little goatee, confusion has reigned in the region of Neville's shaving mirror.
The Guardian World News Martin Kelner 2011
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Forget the campy persona Price cultivated throughout most of his ghoulish career: In Michael Reeves's genuinely scary "Witchfinder," the maven of horror schlock tweaks his role with a demonic concentration that belies his fun but often hokey turns in lesser films.
John Farr: The Best Under-Exposed Horror Movies by Farr 2008
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And what will it take to put a stake through the Witchfinder General's black heart?
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And what will it take to put a stake through the Witchfinder General's black heart?
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Do you see The Last Witchfinder as an allegory on the contemporary problem of faith versus rationality?
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