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Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder; Allied Artists) suggests that the Big Bad Wolf can be devoured by Little Red Ridinghood-provided she plays her cad right. Romancer Claude Anet's 1924 novel Ariane, transplanted in the movie from Moscow to Paris, originally fascinated a generation of French schoolgirls, inspiring them to daydreams of enticing worldly seducers into marriage beds. A German film version (1931) with Elisabeth Bergner as its cunning heroine sent many a lovelorn Mädchen into similar transports...
...volume epic of the British in India. The book is a reliable old elephant, advancing indomitably over the narrative terrain while throwing the dust of unlikely adventures in the reader's eye. The gist of Far, Far the Mountain Peak is that, given enough rope in India, a cad may climb it-socially...
Soon men move into Gina's life. The first is a cad; worse, so far as mother is concerned, he is a chauffeur. When Gina learns that he will not marry her because he is already married, what is there for her to do? She is disillusioned, bursting with "physical exuberance," and full of motherly advice that she has a body to sell. She sells it. Comes the dawn, and Gina wants to die. Instead, she keeps going-from one man to another. The principal ones (the time is the mid-'30s) are a fascist police official...
...sallow face of the barrister (Michael Rennie) who helps Leslie beat the rap. With pace and polish, Wyler distilled all the steamy Maugham atmosphere and dry rot of colonial life, brought believability to some papier-mache archetypes. Oldtime Cinemactress Anna May Wong, as the blackmailing mistress of the murdered cad, peered with good effect through the inevitable beaded curtains...
...from London, where it has been a hit for over a year. In a succession of glossy costume changes, it tells of a determined society matron's efforts to find a gilt-edged husband for her uncooperative debutante daughter, while the girl herself falls in love with a cad. In one of those splendid reversals of the seeming truth, the shakoed young palace guardsman whom Mother favors proves morally unworthy of such exalted employment, while the handsome cad emerges not only a verray parfit gentil knight but, at the last moment, a duke as well...