Word: section
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What saves the film is the production-even the "thriller" section is handled with subtlety and fine acting. More important, the film was done with a skillful sense of humor. The dialogue is bright and witty, the comic relief sophisticated and highly effective. Throughout the tenseness of the investigation, one of the policemen persists in talking to the embassy in lumbering French, although they always reply in perfect English. And the come logic of a child's mind is played for its full charm. Bobby Henrey as Felipe gives the top performance of a well-acted movie. There is none...
...tail section fluttered down, turning over & over, scattering debris and bodies, and smashed to rest, belly-up, on the riverbank. The forward half of the plane seemed to linger in the air. Then it too plunged down, hit the river in a burst of spray, and was gone...
...producers of this movie obviously had their eyes on the hugely successful Linda Darnell-Paul Douglas section of "A Letter to Three Wives." But where the prototype gave the actors a chance to achieve high comedy in a highly original situation, the follow up is perfunctory, routine, and yields few laughs even to such an accomplished team...
Passport to Pimlico. A small section of London takes hilarious advantage of its chance to secede from the Commonwealth (TIME...
...clubs sang serious songs. It was here that the Princetons showed their failings the most. The general impression ereated was that they needed rehearsing--their faces were buried in their scores and they consequently didn't watch Mr. Knapp, their conductor. The unfortunate result was that as a section fell behind on the beat it made the rest of the club go flat despite the piano accompaniment. When they sang folk songs and spiritual afterwards without music, however, this failing largely vanished...