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...script, by Huston and James Agee, is faithful to the spirit of C. S. Forester's 1935 novel. Bogart, cast as a Canadian instead of a Cockney, does the best acting of his career as the badgered rumpot who becomes a man and a lover against his will. Katharine Hepburn is excellent as the gaunt, freckled, fanatic spinster. Their contrasting personalities fill the film with good scenes, beginning with Bogart's tea-table agony as the indelicate rumbling of his stomach keeps interrupting Missionary Robert Morley's chitchat about dear old England...
...Winants the first year, and more than 45 last summer, went to England to work in London's industrial and slum area. The actual work of the Volunteers in the clubs and parishes consists of leading and sharing in the athletics, theatre productions, camps, and general life of the Cockney youths...
...friendliness of the Cockney's, their desire for novelty and their curiosity about Americans, explain the popularity and success of the Winants. Commenting on the worth of the group, one harried club leader proclaimed that "two Volunteers are better than 50 assistant club leaders, for they accomplish more in two shorts months than all the rest in a year...
...returned from London," be continued, "feeling more a part the Cockney community than I ever felt for my own community at home...
...exchange of ideas and the learning of new ways and outlooks of life, "have not only broadened the Cockney's view of the American," Forbes added, "but even more so, the horizons of the Winants...