Word: donators
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said to want. It has Ingrid Bergman in a part so flagrantly sympathetic that Hollywood may not dare refuse her a third Oscar. It has Curt Jürgens, a German matinee idol who looks like John Wayne with a monocle scar, and it has the late Robert Donat, playing a sort of Chinese Mr. Chips in his most magniloquent style of maudlin. It has Cinema-Scope, DeLuxe color, 2,000 Chinese extras, a $5,000,000 budget, a $450,000 set, a running time of 157 minutes-without an intermission. It has love, war, religion, riot, murder, spectacle, horror...
...travels alone across Siberia, settles finally in a remote valley in North China, sets up a sort of motel for mule drivers ("the newspapers of North China") and has somebody tell them Bible stories while they eat. Meanwhile, she makes friends with the local mandarin (Donat), who gives her a civil service job as his Foot Inspector during the height of the campaign against binding the feet of female children; after that, the cheerful, hardworking, God-fearing young woman is known for miles around as "Jen-Ai" (The One Who Loves People). She fights for the rights of women...
Pull. In Jacksonville, Donat Yelle was licensed to practice dentistry in Florida...
Sylvia Short, as Queen Isabella, sometime object of a faded emotion, gave one of the show's finest performances in her wistful role--despite her phony French accent. The latter, shared by Peter Donat in his interpretation of Piers Gaveston, is more forgiveable because it is called for in Treece's stage directions. But it is as historically anachronistic as it was poorly done...
Unfortunately, this high moment is all the film has, and the picture dwindles away in a continued restating of its central idea. But Actor Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips), in his first movie in four years, scores a minor triumph, and his evocation of an inner glory breaking through a life-beaten man lifts an average movie into a near masterpiece...