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...With my brassbound head of oak so stout...
...heavy with reminiscence of the 19th century, when the language of sublimity was formed from the raw material of landscape by such artists as Moran, Frederick Church and Albert Bierstadt and the indomitable photographers (Eadweard Muybridge, Timothy O'Sullivan, William Jackson and the rest) who lugged their brassbound cameras thousands of miles to make documents of a nature that had scarcely been imagined, let alone spoiled, by man. The big difference, however, is that 19th century American topography had a use and was conceived in terms of that use: to supply information, the best available...
When it comes to the stage, Ingrid Bergman dotes on second-rate plays. In recent years she has appeared in inferior O'Neill (More Stately Mansions), hand-me-down Shaw (Captain Brassbound's Conversion), and now in fossilized Maugham. Bergman has treated each of these dilapidated vehicles as if it were the Queen's own royal barouche wheeling through the gates of Buckingham Palace. Indeed, Elizabeth II would not fault Bergman's acting technique-a tilt of the head, a flash of a smile and the wave of a hand...
ENGLAND MADE ME is extracted-painfully-from a 1935 Graham Greene novel about moral and political decadence in Germany before World War II. The excellent Peter Finch appears as a brassbound industrialist named Krogh who traffics with the Nazis to sustain and increase his fortune. Michael York, who apparently wandered in from Cabaret still wearing his costume, impersonates the brother of Krogh's mistress (Hildegard Neil). There is much solemn and oblique conversation about impending crises, and the feeling prevails that the director, Peter Duffell, was rather too impressed with The Damned. There is, however, a splendid supporting performance...
TIME Critic Kalem's condescending review of Miss Bergman's deliciously droll performance as Lady Cicely Waynflete in Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion inadvertently provides a fine evaluation of Kalem himself-a D-minus critic writing for a C-plus magazine...