Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Between, the heroine is tooling down the road to Nowhere so fast that the audience can hardly read the signposts of the plot. She is a young Englishwoman (Claire Bloom) who goes to Berlin, 1953, for a visit with her brother (Geoffrey Toone), an officer in the British occupation force. Almost at once she senses dark, hurrying shapes in the outwardly placid life of her sister-in-law (Hildegarde Neff), and soon curiosity tempts her to take a plunge into the shadowy mystery...
...shark in the service of the Russians (James Mason) who gives her a chase that is all the more stimulating because she never knows whether he is after her neck or just after her pretty face. In due course, the shark proves human and takes the bait Ingenue Bloom only too happily offers. The Russians rush off after them both on just the kind of joyride that Reed likes best to give his camera-the chase through a great city by night. Bloom and Mason hole up at last in a dingy East zone apartment and spend...
...speaking the strange German-English accent he tried out in The Desert Rats, turns in one of his most careful performances, and makes the part of a romantic baddie into a pretty convincing picture of a middle-aging liberal who has followed the purse strings to the left. Claire Bloom, a wonderfully charming and gifted ingenue, moves through her scenes winningly. Hildegarde Neff is heavy, magnetic and subtle as the troubled sister-in-law. She has a Dietrich-like voice and a Garbo-like capacity to make silence intensely interesting...
...Theater (Sat. 6 p.m., NBC). Romeo and Juliet, with Claire Bloom, Alan Badel...
Fond of her gentle mother, fearful of her bluff, cruel father, Helen Angus is romping through her teens with artless innocence when Ratoons begins. Then the hothouse climate brings her emotions to quick bloom; she falls in love with a half-Boer boy named Chris and soon is pregnant. Before she can nerve herself to tell anyone, Chris departs for the Boer War, and Helen's mother, herself pregnant, dies while giving birth to a puny boy. When the child dies, Helen's father substitutes Helen's illegitimate baby for his own Nicky...