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Guns of Darkness. Dreary is the word for Tom and Claire. The one (David Niven) is a mother's boy who wants everything his own way, and when he can't have it he sulks and drinks and insults everybody in sight. The other (Leslie Caron) is a loyal, long-suffering, sweet little wife who is pitied by everybody-especially herself. Dreary little people in a dreary little manana republic; sick of the heat, sick of the natives, sick of themselves; each blaming the other for the mess they are in, both too weak and lazy to clean...
...money from a good musical based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol, has tried to do the same thing in Hollywood and has failed--at least, aesthetically. FANNY is genuine four handkerchief family-style mediocre entertainment- starring everyone that should appear in a Hollywood musical about foreigners: Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Horst Bucholz and Maurice Chevalier. Afternoons and evenings...
Starts Wednesday: Another Hollywood re-tread, this one of a delightful Marcel Pagnol novel, Fanny, which became, progressively, a stage play, a fine trilogy of films, a dull Broadway musical, and now all this -- the poorest of the lot. The principals are Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz and (how could it possibly be a decent picture?) Maurice Chevalier. Joshua Logan directed. Afternoons and evenings...
Actor Whitman plays Vivaldi on a penny whistle and tries to look like Pan, but unhappily he looks more like Peter Pan. Juliet Prowse looks like Leslie Caron with muscles and, perhaps because she is a native of South Africa, also looks ashamed of the mess she's in. Massey is gassy. The only object of real interest on the screen is Rafer Johnson, the Olympic decathlon champion, here appearing in his big Hollywood role. Most of the time...
...blue, cluttered, ever-so-quaint Marseilles harbor. From that point the viewer is a tourist, charmed by the view, worried about losing his traveler's checks, and naggingly certain that he will never be allowed to see what the natives are really like. It is unfair to Actors Caron and Buchholz, who are pleasant people, but lovingly photographed docks, boats, fish stalls and bit players make it difficult to pay attention to their romance. The viewer's first thought as he leaves is not of the bittersweet ambience of love but of his wristwatch: Does he have time...