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Shoot First (Raymond Stress-United Artists) is the latest pedestrian movie to try a climb up John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps. Despite a slick script by British Whodunit Expert Eric Ambler, the film trips over its own footage...
Much credit for the movie's excellence goes to Fric Ambler for his tightly written screen play. In all, The Magic Box is far above average. DAVID C. D. ROGERS
...adapted by Eric Ambler from Arnold Bennett's 1911 novel The Card and directed by Ronald Neame, The Promoter steers a spry course between slapstick and social satire. The picture not only provides Guinness with a subdued, well-rounded characterization but also gives him an opportunity to indulge in a full measure of comedy falls-from hurtling headlong into a canal atop a careering van to racing around in an old cart behind a runaway mule. Glynis Johns as a dancing teacher and Valerie Hobson as the countess stroll attractively through their roles. One of the Bursley townsfolk remarks...
...outstanding names in British films. It has some 70 stars, from Michael Redgrave to Emlyn Williams, in bit roles. It was produced by Ronald (Great Expectations') Neame, directed by John (Seven Days to Noon) Boulting, photographed in Technicolor by Jack (Red Shoes) Cardiff, and adapted by Eric Ambler from Ray Allister's Friese-Greene, Close-Up of an Inventor. The result is a cinebiography that is more of a blurred long shot than a clear closeup...
Major H in Minor Colors--James E Bacon, New Canaan, Conn.; Washington A. Flagg, Jr., Old Westbury, L. I.; Morris W. Wood, Jr., Ambler, Pa.; Charles W Ufford, Jr., Haverford...