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...rake (Rex Harrison) is an amiable, Noel Cowardish sort of cad whose inability to take anything very seriously causes no end of trouble to himself, his employers, his family, his chums and his ladyfriends. As played by Actor Harrison and manipulated by writers-directors-producers Frank Launder and Sydney Gilliat (one of Mr. Rank's brighter young production teams), the rake's fast, downhill progress is topnotch fun with a pleasant British accent. The fun holds up, and so does the picture, until all the actors suddenly wipe the smiles off their faces at the end and admit...
...Union Library during the past two weeks: "Moral Overstrain", G. W. Alger; "National Cyclopedia of American Biography", 13 volumes; "Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht", R. Arthur; Disraeli's Works, 20 volumes; "The Debtor", M. E. W. Freeman; Goethe's Samtliche Werke, 14 volumes; "The Story of Brussels", E. Gilliat-Smith; "The Law Breakers", R. Grant '73; Hebbel's Samtliche Werke, 12 volumes; Keller's Samtliche Werke, 10 volumes; "The Spur", G. B. Lancaster; "Sir Walter Scott", A. Lang; "A Memoir of Jane Austin", J. E. A. Leigh; "Red Saunders' Pets", H. W. Phillips; "Evolution, the Master...