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...taming of these once adventurous spirits is mildly depressing to watch. When the plot borders on the dreary, Director George Sidney and Scenarist Robert Ardrey brighten things up with more shots of Dancer Kelly's graceful gymnastics. Since the musketeers never fight at odds of less than 20 to 1 (against them, of course) they have an uphill job unraveling the intrigues of the Queen of France (Angela Lansbury), the Duke of Buckingham (John Sutton) and the unctuous Richelieu (Vincent Price...
...saboteurs beat up the workers and tried to wreck the plant. But "in the nick of time, like the U.S. cavalry in an oldtime Western film, the common wealth idea . . . storm[ed] the national scene and . . . rescued a civilization from the running clutch of death." Young (35) Author Ardrey 's first novel (his play Thunder Rock has just appeared as a British cinema - TIME, Sept. 25) is crowded with cliches ("I get out the old and battered typewriter") and gilt-edged platitudes ("There are things of beauty in the world of a child that cannot be carried on into...
WORLDS BEGINNING-Robert Ardrey -Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...play (by Robert Ardrey) Thunder Rock flopped in Manhattan, but ran long & loud in London. As cinema, its prospects are unpredictable. Like the play, it suffers from naive lubberliness, reminiscent of Eugene O'Neill at his worst. But it also has some of the most stinging and salutary talk about prewar blindness, postwar prospects and their causes which has ever reached the timid screen. Its edged, cultivated production and its heartfelt acting-particularly that of brilliant Barbara Mullen-also help to turn the struggle of the protagonists into drama a fraction as searching and noble as the author intended...
Paunchy, 31-year-old Robert Ardrey is now in Hollywood. He is convinced that Thunder Rock would have been more successful in the U. S. if European conditions then had been as crucial as they are today. Sore at the Group Theatre, Ardrey feels that the American production of Thunder Rock was bungled. He is not worried about the fact that his royalties from London are frozen by war restrictions. He has made enough in Hollywood to keep him going for the next five years, intends to quit the cinema in October, have another try at Broadway...