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REPUTATION FOR A SONG (331 pp.)]-Edward Grierson-Knopf...
...Reputation for a Song, British Novelist Edward Grierson has carpentered a trimly joined plot, with Freudian underpinnings and a legalistic overlay, to describe the ugly events leading up to the fatal night in the little English town and the court battle that followed. Having disposed of the body, mother and son buttress the boy's plea of- self-defense by disposing of the dead man's reputation. Margaret threatens to tell all; but even she is finally persuaded that her brother's neck is worth more than her father's name, remains silent when testimony paints...
...Brave Don't Cry (Group Three; Mayer-Kingsley) is a fairly maudlin title for a lean, unsparing movie about a Scottish mine disaster. Produced by oldtime Documentary-Maker John Grierson, the picture is based on a real-life disaster in the Knockshinnock Castle Colliery in 1950. It tells of a mine cave-in and the rescue of 118 miners trapped for two days in West No. 4 section between the firedamp and a flooded pit shaft...
Last week Grierson was in Paris speaking for British culture at UNESCO meetings. He was also organizing a new U.S.British-Canadian company called The World Today, Inc., which plans to make 26 "international" fact films a year. Without much prospect of getting any fresh movie criticism out of such a busy executive, Grierson fans were poring over a collection of his old, still-fresh work recently published in England as Grierson on Documentary, edited by Forsyth Hardy (Collins, 16s.). When the book comes out in the U.S. next spring, it rates a more apt title. Actually, the collection is Grierson...
...Crystal. Because he can never find his way in the big cinemansions, "idiotic labyrinth of premieres, first runs," etc., Grierson prefers his neighborhood Crystal. ". . . By the time a film gets to the Crystal, the spit & polish have gone, the confidence trick of presentation and ballyhoo is an old damp squib of months ago, and Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds, and the Hoot Gibsons, they all come even at last on the billboards. They have to talk across the hard floors and waste spaces of the peanuts to be good, with nothing to warm them except what is inside themselves, and that...