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...coat. But she never mixes generosity with her career. De Sylva, who, after a long illness, has been trying to get back into movie production as an independent, stopped speaking to her last year. She had refused to do a picture "for him because she did not like the script...
After Novelist Carson McCullers turned her The Member of the Wedding into a play (TIME, Jan. 16), the script languished in producers' offices for three years. One producer suggested to the 33-year-old Georgian that she tear it up and try something else. Last week, its 13th on Broadway, Mrs. McCullers' drama about a sensitive twelve-year-old girl's entry into adolescence won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award as the best of the season. The award was a scro' l which box-office men figured was worth an extra advance sale...
...played as if it really mattered, the movie manages to keep its hokum fairly lively. Joan's fans will be glad to find that, for all her suffering, the wages of sin never loom quite as large as the dividends. They may also glean some thrill from the script's implied message: a woman's decision to walk out on a grubby home and poor provider is virtually an inalienable right...
...Margaret Leighton matches it as the daughter who loses her stuffy fiance when the case plunges the family into notoriety. Neil North ably fills the title role. With the help of British dependables in lesser parts, the stars give the film a luster that shines only fleetingly in the script...
...fulfills its modest melo dramatic intentions. Its climax, an auto mobile chase near the Manhattan water front and in the deserted financial district on a Sunday morning, is sharpened by exciting location shots from high overhead showing the cars darting through narrow skyscraper canyons. Sidney Boehm's straightaway script, if somewhat patly plotted, contains some authentic-sounding police talk. There are also solid minor per formances by Paul Kelly as a captain of detectives, James Craig as a thug and Jean Hagen as a Greenwich Village night club floozy...