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...Robert Louis Stevenson, so the movie faithfully echoes other good movies: the graveyard encounter between boy and convict in Great Expectations is almost exactly reproduced, while the affectionate bond between a rogue and youngster that illumined both Kidnapped and Treasure Island is duplicated in Moonfleet by Rapscallion Stewart Granger and Orphan Jon Whiteley...
...plot turns upon a lost diamond of great price, but mostly the film is a string of lively, unrelated escapades. Granger plays the picaresque gentleman with style, and seems equally at home embracing a flamenco dancer, dodging thrown knives, or winning a duel with a halberd-swinging smuggler. Jon Whiteley, who distinguished himself in last year's The Little Kidnappers (TIME, Sept. 6), proves again that Britain still has the world monopoly on believable child stars...
...victory gave the varsity a 15 to 14 win over the Lions, the Crimson's first in the last three meets. It came after previously undefeated Captain Ken Culbert (177) lost a 6 to 5 decision to Dale Granger, Columbia's heavyweight power-house...
...Grade B jungle bungle. In Green Fire, as in Mogambo, the only other picture she has made at Metro, Grace is caviar to the crocodiles. A coffee heiress, she lives on a South American mocha finca. The nearest eligible male is weeks away. Hold on though, here comes Stewart Granger up the river, looking almost as hungry as she does. He is not hungry for love, however, but for money. That mountain over there, he tells Grace, is full of it. Emeralds! He digs and digs; she sighs and sighs. Nobody (including the moviegoer) gets anywhere, in fact, until...
...Brummell, Stewart Granger probably gives the best performance of his career. By nature an admirable clotheshorse, he just lets nature take its course and since he hardly bothers to act, the audience is hardly bothered by his acting. As his paramour, Lady Patricia, Elizabeth Taylor behaves so naturally that sometimes a Regency gala seems almost as sophisticated as a Hollywood high-school prom...