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C. A. Lejeune, wrote Callow, was " shocked " by the poor quality of Laughton's recent work: " One of the most painful screen phenomena of latter years ", she wrote in The Observer, " has been the decline and fall of Charles Laughton.

" On the other hand, David Shipman, in his book The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years, said " Laughton was a total actor.

His range was wide ".