Word: corri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of life, man is in death. Robert Donat is the grey, ineffectual vicar of a tiny parish in rural Yorkshire. His daily round is a dreary mixture of habit and frustrations. Carefully nurtured by his tweedy wife (Kay Walsh), pampered by his genteelly hoydenish daughter (Adrienne Corri), he has only one major problem: how to find enough money to pay for Adrienne's musical education in London...
...your issue of January 12, you carried a short review by Gavin Scott of the English film, Lease of Life, in which he makes the egregious error of saying that "no Anglican vicar in all England could possibly have as lovely a daughter as Adrienne Corri," who presumably played the part of a country parson's deserving offspring...
...becomes a surprisingly human being. Kay Walsh, his neurotic, ambitions, but basically good wife, is somewhat less successful. The contrast she must draw with her godly husband and noble daughter is difficult to define. No Anglican vicar in all England could possibly have as lovely a daughter as Adrienne Corri. Her back-talk to the smart aleck, home-town piano teacher who has great hopes for her future, is sparkling. She obviously will move to London for her piano lessons, he will give chase, and they will marry and have fourteen children--but the movie ends too soon...
...daughter of a jute mill supervisor and two of her friends, all three of whom fall in love with a visiting American. In catching the aching mood of this adolescent world, Renoir is aided by the excellent performances of Patricia Walters (the heroine, the "I" of the novel), Adrienne Corri (the beautiful girl who scores for a time over the plain girl--who, thank Renoir, is in fact plain), and Radha (the half-caste). But essentially this is a director's and not an actor's picture, and most oaf the credit must go to Renoir...
...Adrienne Corri) is also drawn to the American, expresses her adolescent awakening in willful cruelty to those around her. Another friend, also smitten, is Melanie (Radha), a solemn, big-eyed Anglo-Indian who is painfully uncertain whether she belongs to India or the West. Meanwhile, the American is struggling stubbornly to convince himself that his missing leg makes him no different from anyone else...