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...highly realistic. An ingenious promoter of the current society game "treasure hunt," stipulates that the prize shall be given the person first producing a young woman who has never had an affair an a married man who has never been unfaithful to his wife and never wanted to be. Colin Clive is the faithful husband and Miss Hepburn is the woman. It is not surprising that they should be attracted to one another and develop an acquaintance. When this acquaintance begins an irresistible progress toward a more vital relationship it sets the scene for a struggle between will and emotion...
Both the performance of Colin Clive and Miss Hepburn are tremendously sincere. Each maintains the high standard of emotional continuity demanded by the plot to a finish which though unfortunately crude in form in none the less powerful. Because it deals with a type of character usually avoided by the movies and because the author has attempted realism instead of melodramas, "Christopher Strong" may not provoke the popularity of a more blatant production. Katharine Hepburn, nevertheless, remains a starting and brilliant figure. With the aid of Colin Clive she succeeds in making "Christopher Strong" a fine piece of work...
...treasure hunts, evening clothes and "keeping fit." It is another caste-mark of such persons that they have nothing better to do than indulge their romantic emotions; the habit gets them into typical difficulties in this picture. A lady aviator (Katharine Hepburn) meets Sir Christopher Strong, M. P. (Colin Clive), at a treasure hunt. He is a faithful husband, she a virgin. This prompts them to have an affaire. Lady Strong (Billie Burke) is distressed. Monica Strong (Helen Chandler) is distressed also, but she is preoccupied about her own romance with a young man of fashion (Ralph Forbes...
Columbia's Professor Colin Garfield Fink, who gave Industry a chromium-plated shield against rust, last week took out a patent for a tungsten-plated shield...
...cast is forced to reveal what he or she knows of the death. On the surface, as the curtain rises, the Priestley puzzle-pieces are good companions. They are not when the final curtain rings down. The cast of this extremely talky but interesting tour de force includes Colin Keith-Johnston (the terrier-like Captain Stanhope of Journey's End) and caustic, statuesque Jean Dixon (Once In A Lifetime, June Moon...