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...Winslow Boy) Rattigan's screenplay examines both flight and flyers: the stresses & strains, mechanical as well as human, of its theme. A pioneer aviation magnate (played with consummate craft by Ralph Richardson) is dedicated to penetrating the sound barrier. Before his "evil vision" is vindicated, his son (Denholm Elliott) and his son-in-law (Nigel Patrick) die at the controls of their planes, and the ruthless magnate himself is revealed to be a very lonely and human individual...
...always hold water; but that is not terribly vital, since it was meant to be filled with Pernod. Playwright Shairp clearly sought to develop an unnatural situation as much on a basis of tone as of truth. As currently produced, it offers less than it might of either. Denholm Elliott sufficiently captures Julian's wishy-washy charm. But Joseph Schildkraut reduces Mr. Dulcimer to a mere fussy epicure; and such is Schildkraut's own personality that he comes off rather more a continental bon vivant...
Ring Round the Moon has a measure of wit along with its grace, and a tango scene that deigns to be altogether hilarious. In a generally good production, Lucile Watson is amusing as the ball's aristocratic wheelchaired hostess, Denholm Elliott smooth and agile as both twin brothers, and Oscar Karlweis suavely despondent as an unwilling millionaire. But Ring Round the Moon seems frequently garrulous and increasingly tenuous and a little too complacently impromptu. The whole effect is rather like finding a filmy handkerchief with a ravishing scent and searching in vain for its owner...
...fault decidedly does not lie in the acting. Denholm Elliott plays two parts well--twins of opposite temperament, living in Auvergne, France, in 1912. Frederic, who has all the humanity that his brother Hugo lacks, is in love with a beautiful young heiress, but the heiress loves Hugo. Hugo brings a poor young ballerina to a ball to distract his twin from the heiress, and her presence there gives the plot much of the flavor of Shaw's "Pygmalion." Neva Patterson is not only gorgeous as the heiress, but she plays the part with splendid clairty and effectiveness. Stella Andrews...
...Miss Eleanor Abbott, C. La Farge and Miss Goodhue, W. J. Louderback, Jr., J. B. Mabon, Jr., and Miss Vaillant, W. W. Rowe and Miss Dill, E. Scott and Miss Fox, N. S. Walker, Jr., and Miss Sage, R. Tuckerman and Miss Caswell, S. Washburn, Mrs. Washburn and Miss Denholm, N. H. White and Miss Fellowes, R. B. Williamson and Miss Eliot, F. Workum and Miss Workum, D. H. Worrall and Miss Merriam...