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...hero (Gary Cooper) is a sort of frontier Freud who can discharge a complex almost as fast as he can trigger a six gun. He sets up as a sawbones in a gold-mining camp, and pretty soon a pretty Swiss girl (Maria Schell), survivor of a stagecoach stickup, is brought in for treatment. He has no trouble healing her body-she is suffering from exposure, concussion, sun blindness. So then he sets out to heal her mind-she is suffering from the shock of seeing her father murdered by the bandits. As might be expected, the hero...
...film at the Brattle this week and next is not so much seen as experienced. It is a series of powerfully delineated situations in which the loyalty to a national cause is set up against the more universal demands of humaneness and mercy. A German doctor (Maria Schell) working as a nurse in a line hospital in Yugoslavia is kidnapped by partisan guerrillas and forced to tend their wounded. At first she refuses, tries to escape, but gradually she comes to see that the partisans have as much of a claim to her ability to prevent suffering as her countrymen...
That Miss Schell won the Cannes Best Actress award is not surprising; she is a highly accomplished actress and, not incidentally, beautiful. But she is somewhat disappointing. As the blinky-eyed ads would imply, she has a bad knack for simpering; she simpers very well, but too much. Her face is wonderfully mobile, but the fine differences of its expressions are limited. She does not stand out over all else in the film, but she does posses a dramatic urgency and an understanding of the excruciating moral dilemma which makes The Last Bridge as profound and important a film...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Germany's famed Maria Schell (TIME, Dec. 30) makes her American TV debut in Word from a Sealed-Off Box, a play about four prisoners in Nazi-occupied Holland; the story is from the book The Walls Came Tumbling Down, by Henriette Roosenburg. Also in the cast: Jean Pierre Aumont, Betsy von Furstenberg...
...which ruined Graham Greene's The Quiet American when translating it onto film--does not have the same effect on The Brothers. It is a new story, but not a bad one. All the parts of this new tale are acted better than competently--especially by Cobb and Miss Schell, and although the title would perhaps be more accurate as True Love Triumphs in Old Russia, the movie should still make good watching for escapists--that is everyone...