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...problem of absolute Good and Evil has again come to Boston, this time in a cops-and-robbers version which is likely to have a good deal more popular appeal than either "Billy Budd" or "Darkness at Noon. William Wyler's film production of "Detective Story" is a fast-moving, realistic treatment of personal tragedy, the tragedy of a public servant whose obsessive hatred of evil is carried into his private life and at length wrecks...
...Michael who sails aboard a pilgrim ship for Palestine, only to be lugged off to the African slave markets by Moslem pirates. Thenceforward, he ricochets about the Ottoman Empire-from the fall of Algiers to the siege of Vienna to the campaigns in Persia-like some 16th Century Lanny Budd with a bath towel wound around his head. The reader is carried along with Michael's story by a trick of suspense that is original, if nothing else: When, where & how will the hero have to submit to the Mohammedan rite of circumcision...
...scenes at Court, while by no means bad, were the least engaging. John Kerr, who recently played Billy Budd, unfortunately hasn't yet unlearned any of the motions and facial expressions he learned for that play. Hermia was supposed to have two men chasing her but she wouldn't have had me interested for a minute...
...Brattle Theatre Group gives its last performance of Billy Budd tonight at 8:30. Starring John Kerr and Albert Marre in an exciting battle between good and evil, this production has enjoyed an immensely successful...
...Billy Budd" is a play worth seeing. It is thoughtful, intelligent, concerned with a real problem. Undoubtedly it is and will be a hit with the Cambridge audience...