Word: godden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enchantment (Goldwyn; RKO Radio), a film version of Rumer Godden's novel Take Three Tenses, is a tear-squeezer which shuttles back & forth between blitz-time London and the gay old '90s. The link is an aged general (David Niven) come home to dream-and to warn the young 'uns against making the same mistakes he did. This leads to so many flashbacks that Enchantment might have sent its audiences into St. Vitus' dance, had it not been for Cameraman Gregg Toland, who completed the picture a few weeks before he died (TIME...
When a suspicious British soldier leads a searching party to the house, Dennehay goes over the cliff and is smashed to death. As Author Godden handles this story, it becomes at once an anguished lyric and a beautifully balanced tale of suspense...
...Younger sister of Novelist Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus...
...HOUSE BY THE SEA (271 pp.)-Jon Godden-Rinehart...
...taken the little money her father had left her, walked out on her domineering spinster roommate in London and bought a lonesome cliffside house on the Cornish coast. In her second novel, British Author Jon Godden* has drawn a terrifying picture of the consequences of Edwina's loneliness, a warning of the psychological perils that beset those humans who cannot make their terms with humanity...