Word: gynt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since 1937, except for a year with Eva Le Gallienne and Margaret Webster running the ill-fated American Repertory Theater, Producer Crawford hunts tirelessly for scripts that offer "something different." Now on her schedule: a melodrama, a musical and a new Paul Green adaptation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, starring John Garfield...
Dear "Murderer (Rank; Universal-International) is a man who tries to commit the perfect crime, by murdering his wife's lover. Eric Portman is wearily proficient as the murderer; Greta Gynt is blowsily sexy as the wife. The forces of British law & order are, as usual, so immaculately polite about their business that it might tempt some U.S. observers to mayhem, just for the pleasure of meeting them. Occasionally there is a flicker of ingenuity or fright, but most of this picture is sad, stock-company stuff...
Take My Life (Rank; Eagle-Lion). An opera singer's husband is accused of strangling a former mistress; his wife (sumptuous Greta Gynt) finds out whodunit. This English thriller in the Hitchcock tradition is no world-shaker, but it is done with intelligence and a flair for fright...
...London's celebrated Old Vic Theater Company begins the final week of its U.S. tour with a 90-minute production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, starring Ralph Richardson...
Felix Aylmer plays Mr. Emmanuel with wise dignity, and leaves the feeling that no one else could quite fill the bill. His performance blends with the soft European beauty of Greta Gynt and the calm, leisurely pacing characteristic of English films to create an extremely satisfying impression of finished artistry. There is fidelity of characterization; unlike American screen women, who are invariably trim, several of the female leads are frankly heavy. There are glimpses of Goering and Himmler that ring very true, and desperate expressions on the faces of tortured Jews which tell the whole miserable story of persecution...