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...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...
While passing through the corri dor of a public building, Premier Djaffer Ypi was shot by a student. He was reported not to have been seriously injured...