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...hand-kissing in an atmosphere that sometimes reeks with rage." But the movies have their trials, too, she added. "I had a director once I'm sure couldn't read. When we'd question him about something, he'd ask to have the script read to him and close his eyes as if in deep thought. He wasn't really arty, I'm sure-just illiterate...
...leading players, Jackie Cooper and Janis Paige, struggle gamely with the script, but even Lindsay, who has taken third billing, delivers many of the lines in a stuffy and unconvincing manner. It is unfortunate that the return of Cooper, the debut of Miss Paige, and the work of Lindsay and Crouse could not have produced a firmer vehicle...
...acting was highly professional and not much more need be said in praise. Uta Hagen played Joan, the one genuinely difficult role in the script. She had to switch from moods of humble faith to exhilaration to boisterous daring to impishness. She accomplished the switches without ever making them appear in the least unnatural. Shaw, in his stage directions, describes Joan as a coarse, dumpy little peasant and Miss Hagen was quite beautiful but I suppose this shouldn't be held against her. John Buckmaster would have gained my unbridled huzzahs for his performance as the Dauphin...
...from the vague ("I think it's a pretty good job") to the picayune ("No character should be made to say, 'Get out or I'll have you thrown out,' unless there's someone around big enough to do it"). But, at $100 a script, it is a cheap way of meeting TV's ravenous demand for new material...
...Oriental-International; United Artists] is a thoroughly unconventional movie and a very good one. It rises out of Rumer Godden's autobiographical novel (1946) about an English girl growing up beside a holy river in India. Directed by France's Jean (Grand Illusion) Renoir, who wrote the script with Novelist Godden, and produced entirely in India by a Hollywood florist named Kenneth McEldowney, it is a sensitive, Technicolored record of youthful growing pains, enriched by a poetic perspective of life and a wealth of Indian sights & sounds...