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Someone Waiting is the fittingly suspenseful title of a "thriller" by Emlyn Williams. A delight to all those who enjoy murders. At the Plymouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Events | 2/10/1956 | See Source »

Unaccustomed Polish. As though rising to a challenge, the rest of the week's dramatic shows were far above average. Maurice Evans and Hallmark combined to produce a first-rate version of Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green. Eva Le Gallienne was crisply dictatorial as the do-gooding English spinster, while John Kerr smoldered like a burning coal as the boy brought from the bowels of a Welsh mine to the stately quadrangles of Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...picture begins as Vivien Leigh, with a slug of gas and a Seconal chaser, is trying to end her life. When the neighbors break in and save her, she lapses into a flashback about life with hubby (Emlyn Williams), a prominent figure on Her Majesty's Bench. One day he introduces Vivien to a RAFfish type (Kenneth More), and her heart is soon shot down in flames. She runs away with More, only to discover that he is actually just a big wonderful boy, and that what he instinctively wants her to be is a mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

Little Pitchers. In Chester, England, after Robert Emrys Griffiths filed suit for divorce from his wife on the grounds that she committed adultery 16 years ago, Judge Emlyn Jones explained: "He did not want to bring proceedings until the children were grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 3, 1955 | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

Unfortunately, she is about par for a blustery course. Robert Newton, as the law officer, and Emlyn Williams, a pirate, can do little more to support a disjointed script sagging mainly from the over-productive imagination of authoress Daphne du Maurier. Both the screen play and the acting proceed at a hurricane pitch, which makes Jamaica Inn seem considerably older than its tender fifteen years...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Jamaica Inn | 9/30/1954 | See Source »

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