“(A) sordid but fascinating mix of art and larceny!
Link produced breathtakingly evocative and dramatic photographs.
His life became steeped in a different kind of drama in 1983.”
– Jay Carr, amNY

“Dives headlong into the steamy scandal surrounding O. Winston Link...(an) unseemly stew of greed, infidelity, and humiliation.
What might have been a simple clips-and-heads format
enlists the director’s first-person commentary
for an extra jolt of insider shock and condemnation.
A complex story that trumps conflicting testimony
with unabashedly partisan sympathies
for the now-dead photographer.”
—Paul Arthur, Film Comment

“Reveals a struggle far more complicated, suggesting that the manic entanglement of human relationships can't always conform to the winner-loser narratives that the lawyer-driven court system demands.”
– Ed Halter, Village Voice

“A true-crime scandal! All the greed and treachery of a Balzac novel,
and the pathos too.”
– Tom Beer, Time Out NY

“See this disturbing and undeniably entertaining film!”
- Ken Fox, TVguide.com

“Enthralling! Yule's grip on his audience never falters.
A solid, unadorned little film that is well-worth watching.”
– Martha Fischer, Cinematical

O. Winston Link took elegant black-and-white nighttime photographs of the last of the great steam locomotives, as they chugged majestically across small-town America in the 1950s. Link married Conchita Mendoza when he was 73 and she 48. From there the story could be told by Stephen King: Conchita successfully marketed the photographs for increasing profit while becoming sexually entangled with another man – all the time keeping Link captive and incommunicado in his basement darkroom! Paul Yule’s film is a fascinating investigation into personality, crime, marriage, contemporary art, and the ever-malleable nature of truth.

Produced & Directed By Paul Yule • England / USA, 2005 • 79 Minutes • First Run / Icarus Films