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BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON-Rebecca West-Viking...
...West: 1) to think back to other political murders she remembered from her youth; 2) to go to a private projection where she had the newsreel of the murder of Alexander run over & over again; 3) to make a trip to Yugoslavia; 4) to write Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, an omnibus record of her journey-part travelogue, part history, part philosophical and political asides-one of the most passionate, eloquent, violent, beautifully written books of our time...
This is the first grim movement in the symphony of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...
...Falcon," which completes the bill, is a better - than-average murder mystery, complete with two corpses, jewel thieves, and dialogue clever enough to clear away those navy blues...
...good job he did with the Falcon, the Brothers Warner have slipped John Marcellus Huston the rewarding assignment of directing the studio's neurotic Bernhardt, Bette Davis, in her next picture. A son who does not much resemble his celebrated father, Actor Walter Huston (see p. 98), young (35) Huston not only directed Falcon but also wrote the script for it. Seldom has a new director made such a ten-strike on his first picture. Sometime actor, painter, prize fighter, Hollywood scenarist, Mexican Army cavalryman, John Huston accepted only a slight assist from his father in his new venture...