Post-Communist Restitution and the Rule of Law Book

If you are a Montgomery Clift fan and idolize and adore him as much as I do this is a distressing and very difficult book to read. I first read it many years ago and it depressed me then as it has depressed me now.

While he was born with a stunningly beautiful face and a talent so brilliant that could not be taught, it had to be innate, he was a man with a tortured soul. He was sensitive and complicated as many intense and luminous people are. He was haunted by ghosts unseen.

The author was sometimes contradictory and attempted to add a bit of pseudo-psychology of his own, but most of what is contained in this biography is well known from movie magazines and newspaper reports of the day.

It is a heart breaking account of a strikingly beautiful and brilliantly talented man. Died July 1966 – age 45.

*While ‘beautiful’ is not a word often used to describe male looks, I use it with no apology because it is what he was, beautiful.*