Word: filming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Gerard Philipe, 36, dashing French film star who was equally at home in farce (Fanfan the Tulip), tragedy (Devil in the Flesh), or existentialist love (The Proud and the Beautiful); of a heart attack; in Paris...
Eric Ambler, one of England's ablest writers of thrillers (Journey into Fear) and movie scripts (A Night to Remember, The Cruel Sea), evades the answers to these questions quite as skillfully as Novelist Hammond Innes did in the 1956 bestseller on which this film is based, and the result is a sloshing good scupperful of salt water and suspense. Director Michael (Around the World in 80 Days) Anderson has kept the story going full ahead, and has wrung a remarkable amount of histrionic blood from one of cinema's best-known stones, the face of Gary Cooper...
Written by Peter Zharov, The House I Live In tells the story of three families who live in the same apartment house. The film begins in 1935 and follows their lives through the end of the war. People and movies being what they are, everybody's life intertwines. (This means, of course, young love for the children and occasional adultery for the adults...
Just as everything is going along fine, the war interrupts the proceedings and the men go to the front. Tearful scenes ensue--although it must be admitted that these are fairly convincingly played. Some of the men return, some don't, and the film ends where it began, with the now mature younger son watching his niece begin life the same way he did. The "cycle" is complete...
...cast plays with warmth and exuberance. They convincingly create the atmosphere of friendliness, love, and sorrow that is the film's best quality. It is interesting to note, too, that they are a most ordinary looking lot, as the most complex individuals. But here, the actors make an effort to keep their characterizations on the proletarian level called for in the script. One believes that Valentina Telegina (who looks, incidentally, like a peasant mother symbol) is an uncomplicated woman devoted to her family and not bothered by the "greater things" taking place around...