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...Greene's instinct for weaving the fictional web, for making life look marvelously complex and always come out even. But life is sometimes very odd indeed, and the story sometimes invites a suspicion that Greene has rigged his game -a suspicion certified by the ease with which the Englishman wins it, and by the oafishness with which the American loses. It is a cheap debating trick, and it cheapens the picture as it did the book. But the picture, in the last reel, suffers at the hands of Scriptwriter-Director Joseph Mankiewicz an even more drastic devaluation...
...Federation of Indo-China in 1952. "With his gangly legs and his crew cut and his wide campus gaze he seemed incapable of harm." But he is an idealist. "He was determined to do good, to people, to countries, to the whole world." His naivete horrifies Greene's Englishman, a middle-aged newsman named Fowler (Michael Redgrave), whose pipedreams are provided by opium, and whose pipe is prepared by his pretty little Vietnamese mistress, Phuong. (Phuong is in the picture, but the opium is not.) Aside from Phuong (Giorgia Moll), the Englishman's principal passion is his uninvolvement...
...said) that the Emperor reportedly continued for some time to find reconciliation upon the broad fields of Beauregard. But as time passed, the "countess" (her title was never confirmed) devoted more and more of her life to good works, flowers and tapestry. For convenience sake she married an Englishman named Trelawny, thus acquiring at last a good name, but still, out of old habit, using phony ones. She died in 1865-and her tombstone carries incorrect dates...
...Keats backwards and forwards has been the patroness of all true romantics. The unattainable, visionary woman dominated Sansom's novel The Loving Eye (TIME, April 15), and now she crops up again like a bad guinea. The story is a little shocker of how "this man Greville, traveller, Englishman, thirtyish, a sort of student on remittance, sitting now cooling off in his little Spanish police-cell, tried again to piece together in his hot red mind what in all strange hell had happened." He is tantalized by a fleeting vision of beauty-a girl he thinks he once loved...
...Though there was little dramatic continuity to Boswell's massive chronicle, the scenes that Omnibus selected-a rowdy night at Drury Lane, a fashionable gathering at Mrs. Thrale's home, a packed Old Bailey courtroom-were charged with both drollery and drama. For, more than any other Englishman, Sam Johnson raised "a life of talk to the level of a life of action...