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...come to the defense of controversial Sculptor Jacob Epstein. In his last years, he changed his signature (from Walter to his middle name, Richard, because it seemed more euphonious), grew a sprawling beard and even changed his style. He painted oil versions of Victorian engravings by such artists as Cruikshank and Sir John Gilbert which were as highly colored and gay as his earlier paintings were low-keyed and grim. "It's such a good arrangement," he explained fliply. "Cruikshank and Gilbert do all the work and I get all the money...
...showing because of pressure-group charges that it fosters antiSemitism, can be seen at last by U.S. moviegoers for what it is: a brilliant, fascinating movie, no less a classic than the Charles Dickens novel which it brings to life. Indeed, in mirroring Dickens and his illustrator, Cruikshank, the picture is faithful to a fault-hence the ruckus. Its faithfully repulsive portrait of Fagin offended some Jewish groups, who protested that the film would drum up anti-Semitism and succeeded in blocking its U.S. release (TIME...
...some of the novel's long passages (e.g., Oliver's birth and workhouse ordeal, Bill Sikes's remorse over the murder of Nancy) into virtually wordless sequences of visual storytelling at its imaginative best. He has molded most of his actors in the image of the Cruikshank drawings and handled them with the controlled flamboyance of Novelist Dickens himself. If any one threatens to outshine the others, it is Alec (The Cocktail Party) Guinness in the horrendous make-up of Fagin. To the character's sly, rancid evil, he adds a subtle tinge of homosexuality...
...soul of a great newspaper is about to be destroyed," said Editor Robin Cruikshank of London's News Chronicle in a special broadcast to some 8,000,000 Britons. "That concerns all of us who love freedom. The Argentine is a long way off. We may never have seen La Prensa, but the freedom of all free men everywhere is hurt by such an attack . . . When liberty of the press is destroyed no other freedom is safe...
Boris Pascuniak's sensitive directing keeps the story probable and well-paced; he is helped out a great deal by a delightfully pastoral musical score by Bonar Gillis. The acting, unfortunately, is less competent. Jane Cruikshank plays the Snopes daughter with a sheepish grin, while Basil Mange is never convincing as the anthropologist-congressman who finally settles the inter-racial strife. "North Forty's" technicolor sheep are wonderfuly convincing, however, and they leave the moviegoer with a true sensation of the Old West...