Word: celia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gibraltar side, the captain goes soberly afoot from his ship to a conventional middle-class cottage. There he is cozily greeted by wife No. i, a plain but devoted homebody (Celia Johnson) who puts out his pipe and porter, serves up his favorite dumplings, and answers dutifully to his call for "beddy-byes" at 10 p.m. Otherwise, as the captain explains, he would be "no use on the bridge...
...From the summer circuit come George Batson's mystery drama, Celia, with Jessie Royce Landis; The Frogs of Spring, a Manhattan comedy based on Nathaniel Benchley's New Yorker stories; and Eva Gabor in Sailor's Delight...
...story is about probation officers--or, more properly, about a prematurely retired civil servant, who becomes a probation officer in default of anything better to do, and who gradually comes to realize what's what in the world. The acting, most of it done by Cecil Parker and Celia Johnson, is as good as the rather uninspiring script allows, but the whole thing bogs down into a sentimental quagmire too often, and many of the characters and situations are trite. As propaganda, the picture does manage to bang over some not too subtle arguments about the treatment of offenders...
...direction and acting are more restrained than the plot. Celia (Brief Encounter) Johnson makes the part of a dedicated probation officer warmly moving. As a retired Colonial-Office official who decides to take up probation work, Cecil Parker brings a jauntily sly humor to his role...
...beating put Keeny on heroin more heavily than ever. Soon he was pawning his possessions to buy the stuff. Although he was devoted to his wife Sally and daughter Celia, Keeny could not quit the habit. He decided to commit suicide. Then Los Angeles Mirror Reporter Lou Larkin, tipped off to the story, caught up with 19-year-old Keeny Teran...