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...scenes of first love, Actress Kelly is exquisite. She kisses her man as though she had invented kisses just for him. Louis Jourdan partners her with easy skill, but Alec Guinness is the man to watch-especially when he goes to bed tied up in a mustache binder. The whole cast gets plenty of help from Director Charles Vidor, who has kept the color warm, the lighting kind, and everything moving in waltz time. But Vidor got plenty of help from the man who wrote lines such as the one that Aunt Symphorosa (Estelle Winwood) once squeaks in horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 23, 1956 | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...Ladykillers. Farcical larceny, with light-fingered Alec Guinness lifting ?60,000 from an armored truck and then losing it-and the picture-to scene-stealing Katie Johnson (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 16, 1956 | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...Ladykillers. Farcical larceny, with light-fingered Alec Guinness lifting ?60,000 from an armored truck and then los ing it-and the picture-to scene-stealing Katie Johnson (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...Ladykillers. Farcical larceny, with light-fingered Alec Guinness lifting ?60,000 from an armored truck and then losing it-and the picture-to scene-stealing Katie Johnson (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...Alec Goodrich is a tawny-eyed, well-heeled, philandering novelist. He lives in a wild part of Wales surrounded by "strange, Wagnerian scenery" and with the loud Atlantic roaring on his doorstep. He defies the Inspector (and shocks Harold) by traveling first-class with a third-class ticket and investing his money, his sacred money, in absurd companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Twiddle on the Fiddle | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

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