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...Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder have put their bright stamp on some of Britain's deftest moviemaking, first as co-scripters (Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, Carol Reed's Night Train), then as a writing-producing-directing team (The Adventuress, The Notorious Gentleman, Green for Danger). Last week the team improved U.S. moviegoing prospects with two new films...
...story begins by giving its hero, U.S. Surgeon Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 5 minutes to live. At a mountain outpost, the government's apologetic hatchetman (Jack Hawkins), a charming, articulate villain, tells Fairbanks he will die in "a shooting accident." While he waits, Fairbanks and Writer-Director Gilliat's facile camera go back to tell how he got into such...
...cable car, a river barge) and some sharply written, ably played characters, notably a blonde, half-English entertainer (Glynis Johns) and a scoundrelly smuggler (Herbert Lorn) whose wholehearted cynicism puts a fillip of fun into his every scene. Actor Fairbanks does just as well as the smallest of Gilliat's bit-players, i.e., very well indeed...
...Road (Gainsborough; Eagle Lion), made for British home consumption some four years ago, is just being released in the U.S. A warmly entertaining little picture, it proves that a good director and a sound story can make an unpretentious production gleam with humanity, humor and sharp characterizations. Director Sidney Gilliat has proved this point before (in Green for Danger, The Adventuress, etc.). This time he manages it with the tale of a young couple (John Mills and Joy Shelton) in wartime England...
While the husband is away in the army, his wife is chased by a slightly mangy wolf (Stewart Granger) full of bad intentions. Gilliat's sympathy for all the people caught in this grade B triangle gives it the look of pathos. He softens contempt for the villain by proving him to be as much an unhappy fool as he is a rascal. When the hero's sister writes a tattling letter, Gilliat balances the tattler's meanness with a compassionate picture of her miserable marriage. Besides endowing his work with warmth and humanity, Director Gilliat knows...