Word: farrar
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Deborah Kerr makes an entirely credible sister, devoid of the sentimentality that usually befouls religious characters in the movies. David Farrar and Flora Robson play with skill and vitality, while Jean Simmons, the Estella of "Great Expectations," is magnificent as a sensuous Indian girl. Technicolor is made the most of, with some splendid photographic effects, and the only serious fault to be found is that the pace is sometimes too slow. It is a great pity that a picture so excellent in execution and so religious in theme should be chopped up by the censors...
...PLUSH (615 pp.)-Guy McCrone-Farrar, Straus...
...audience recognizes from the start that the German bride (Mai Zetterling) of the demobilized Englishman (David Farrar) can't be wholly "guilty" and is perhaps hardly "guilty" at all. A large part of the picture merely shows Mr. Farrar's mother (Barbara Everest), political-minded aunt (Flora Robson) and fellow townsmen slowly getting used to the obvious. Miss Zetterling's brother (Albert Lieven), on the other hand, is as fanatical a Nazi as Hitler himself; so there is no very interesting question about brother's guilt...
...leaves this film convinced that Mai Zetterling (who recently appeared in the Swedish film Torment) will be worth watching unless the glamorizers ruin her; that Mr. Farrar is a personable leading man; that the makers of this picture meant very well; and that nothing at all revealing, or even particularly real, has happened on the screen...
...PLEASURES OF PEACOCK (458 pp.) -Edited by Ben Ray Redman-Farrar Straus...