The religious imagery, the humor, the exultation and the terror that lurks beneath great actions — that scene is definitively iconic, and was large in my mind when I sat down to revisit this film. The writing, performances, set design, costumes, music, camera choices, and imagery all combine in a genius orchestration that is as funny as it is suspenseful. Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft are sublime in this film, especially in this scene and the later encounter at the hotel. Speaking of wardrobe, the art direction in The Graduate is bold — so on-the-nose that it becomes its own joke, but smart none-the-less. The seduction sequence begins with Mrs. Robinson home, and it is all about contrast. Everything is black and white, inspired perhaps by the chess set sitting out on a table, waiting for the games to begin.

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American actress Anne Bancroft - , in character as the seductive older woman Mrs. Anne Bancroft may have smoldered on the big screen as the wildly seductive and much older Mrs. The Oscar-winning actress, who died in at age 73 from uterine cancer, is the subject of a recent book published by journalist Douglass K. Daniel interviewed numerous friends and colleagues who worked closely with the star over the years. But, she was a solid actress.
The Graduate is a American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols [5] and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham , [6] based on the novel of the same name by Charles Webb , who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The film tells the story of year-old Benjamin Braddock Dustin Hoffman , a recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who begins an affair with an older woman, Mrs. In , The Graduate was selected for preservation in the U. National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.