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...rugby's equivalent of the backfield. Matt Baige is returning to the scrum-half position, with Buzzy Smyth moving in from center to fly half. Regular scrum-half Nat Cooke plays his first game at center, beside Dave Fisher, playing his first game for the club. Mike Reynal and Alastair Rellie, the team's two freshmen, are left and right wings...
...Alastair Sim plays Inspector Poole, the man whose mysterious power drags the recognition of their own guilt from the reluctant people. Poole's mystic qualities are clearer when it becomes obvious that he is really the group's collective conscience. In this role, Sim is neither better nor worse than he has been in all his films that I have seen. In fact, his playing is most always the same from picture to picture, Sim being a sort of one man acting convention in the manner of such set characters as Charles Laughton and Robert Newton. He is always superb...
Barring Sir Winston, Alastair Sim is the top performer in Britain today. If Alec Guinness fans disagree, they need only attend Folly to be Wise. The film itself suffers from unwarranted moralizing and an ill-constructed plot, but Sim's agreeable eccentricity equals and sometimes surpasses anything Guinness has done...
World War II is the answer to Alastair's orisons. A nice job in the British Treasury puts him in contact with the moneybags of Washington, and by novel's end. he is heading smartly for Wall Street after deliberately (and symbolically) burning to the ground the romantic home of his ancestors...
Cathy becomes Alastair's wife-a neat alliance of sexual and mercenary cupidities. But for all Author Scott's efforts, neither Cathy nor Alastair strikes the reader as being highly qualified in their respective fields. This is because, like the characters in so many other well-bred British novels, they are nothing but a pair of author's notions dressed in well-cut suits of prose. Asked to play the role of human beasts, they answer, quite rightly, that they were never destined to be anything more than their tailor's dummies...