Word: clift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lift. Romance, propaganda and the Berlin airlift, crowded into an overambitious but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME...
...burnish that Co-Author Charmian Clift brings to her husband's moral tale was good enough, despite a tendency to purple prose, to help win High Valley the ?2,000 first prize in an Australian novel contest in 1948. The book will also gen erally please readers who like Oriental stories to have Oriental endings. Those who prefer Southern California endings should be warned that High Valley is not James Hilton's Shangri...
...stems from the point (early in the picture) when the pitiable plot is poured over the documentary background like a thick, opaque syrup over pancakes. This movie succeeds in throwing part of the background into obscurity, and nearly all of the remainder into a particularly sticky context. Montgomery Clift and Douglas each find girl friends in Berlin. Clift, who has sensitive sympathetic channels, is overcome by the signs of the stricken city and is drawn to his girl to the extent of wishing to take her into Holy Matrimony. She, however, is simply deluding him in order...
Seaton's story of two sergeants is also neatly designed to serve his other purposes, and in the main it serves them well: Clift is a good-hearted young Midwesterner who approaches the Germans with naive friendliness, and Douglas is a roughneck who loathes them with a bitterness stored up as a prisoner of war. Clift becomes disillusioned in a love affair with a calculating Berlin girl (Cornell Borchers) who hopes to use him as a passport to the U.S. Douglas is shamed by another German girl (Bruni Lobel) who turns out to be a better democrat than...
...Clift and Douglas give unaffected performances that blend nicely with the acting of Director Seaton's remarkable nonprofessionals. Germany's O. E. Hasse shines as a cheerfully self-professed Soviet spy who feeds the Russians bogus airlift statistics because they will not believe the real ones in the newspapers. The film's most notable performer: Actress Cornell Borchers, who clearly qualifies as a "find." Alluring in a way that falls mercifully short of Hollywood's beauty-contest standards, she gives her role an unusual depth and subtlety...