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By Joanne Hilty
Special to the Rappahannock News
Austere, moody and unabashedly clever, “The Spanish Prisoner” is a film that will keep audiences guessing until the very end.
Written and directed by David Mamet (House of Games), it is a classic mystery with clever twists and deceptive red herrings.
Its ingenuity comes not from what happens but from what doesn’t happen, or from what’s hidden. It is reminiscent of Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much” and “North by Northwest.”
Come see this film at The Theatre on Gay Street in the town of Washington on Friday, Feb. 21 at 8 p.m.
Campbell Scott plays Joe Ross, inventor of “The Process,” a top-secret formula that’s already got his boss Mr. Klein (Ben Gazzara) seeing dollar signs. But while he’s flown Joe down to a secluded Caribbean island resort for a hush-hush meeting of big stockholders, Mr. Klein has only vague promises about cutting Joe in on some of the profits.
Joe’s a trusting guy, but he’s starting to think that he might be getting shut out of the biggest thing that’s ever happened to him. Taking a walk on the beach to mull things over, Joe encounters Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), a mysterious, jet-setting bvisinessman, and they make plans to meet in New York.
When,,-back in the city, Joe confides his troubles toyJimmy, Jimmy offers to help Joe
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