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...story was suggested by the custom, common among British labor unions, of bringing a rebellious member back in line by "sending him to Coventry."* In this case, the rebel is a machinist (Richard Attenborough), an ordinary bloke who sticks to the telly and minds his football pools, until one day the Works Committee calls a wildcat strike that he considers senseless. Along with about a dozen other men, he refuses to take part in it. Factory toughs terrorize the holdouts, and all but the hero come to heel. "Don't do to step out of line these days," somebody...
Despite its needlessly bloodthirsty climax-the machinist, like Wotan, gives up an eye to gain his triumph-The Angry Silence is a grimly impressive critique of the mass mind. Guy Green's direction is sure, direct, forceful. Bryan Forbes's script is swift, cogent, vernacular. But Hero Attenborough's performance is the best thing in the picture. He is so ordinary it hurts, but then his ordinariness is an essential part of his significance. Anybody, he seems to say, anybody at all can stand up on his hind legs and live his own life if only...
Brothers in Law is the thin story of the mis-adventures of Roger Thursby, fresh from barrister school and afflicted with stage fright when he enters a court-room. Roger, played by Ian Carmichael, shares chambers with another fledgling barrister, named Henry Marshall (Richard Attenborough). Together they pursue not only their legal careers, but an upstairs professional model by the improbable name of Sally Smith...
Carmichael, Attenborough, and Maleson all turn in slick comic performances, and Jill Adams, as Sally Smith, is sweetly seductive. All in all, the Boulting Brothers have dealt another subtle blow to the humorless corpse of time and institution, and college audiences and old ladies alike chortle in appreciation...
...total of ?12,000 ($33,600). Twelve more were reserved by buyers in what turned out to be one of the biggest stampedes for the works of an almost unknown artist London has ever seen. Among the customers: Actors Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson and Richard Attenborough, Collector Lord Ivor Churchill, and Ohio's Toledo Museum...