Mrs. Robinson, youre trying to seduce me

Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, 1967, directed by Mike Nichols. Anne Bancroft burns with a black flame as Mrs. John Simon The film s best scenes are the early ones in which Ben is seduced by the wife of his father s partner (superbly played by Anne Bancroft is a young man s deliciously provocative sexual fantasy come to When she s on, Ben might just as well roll over and play She has so much more selfawareness than he, and so many more real Anne Bancroft is really too interesting for Nichol s sentimentalities about the generational Stephen Farber and Estelle Changas, Film Quarterly, 1967. Read more about Bancroft s performance at (Ad disclaimer: I do not own the copyrights to the film, and I do not know what ads they will run with this clip. )