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There have been other movies about children. But what children! Our Gang exists somewhere west of the moon. You don't bump into Shirley Temples at the grocery store. Once, in Tiger Bay, before she freaked out as Polyanna, Hayley Mills played a child. But the movie, like Sundays and Cybele, focuses on a sexy little girl's relationship with a fugitive. Every other little girl isn't so lucky...
...FAMILY WAY. A young couple (Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett) who cannot consummate their marriage are the subjects of this comedy that owes a lot of its depth to an extraordinary performance by John Mills as the groom's father...
...FAMILY WAY. A young couple (Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett) who cannot consummate their marriage are the subjects of this delicate comedy that owes a lot of its depth to an extraordinary performance by John Mills as the groom's father...
...raining-in-the-sunshine effect. And of course with that irrepressible old crybaby John Mills on hand, even a crisp comedy would turn milksoppy. Mills probably has a provisional clause in his movie contracts: "I shall produce X-hundred buckets of tears on screen, or else ..." His daughter Hayley Mills isn't underproductive herself, but she's vivacious enough to get away with it. Remember how she got away with Polyanna, made from the book that was so bad it made the Bobbsey Twins look good...
...Miss Mills, though she doesn't look terribly different from the way she did when she was 14, is sexiest of all. But the best part of the Boulting Brothers' movie is the Cockney accent--soft, slurred, turning every remark into a lyric. Other than that, it's sedate. Hayley Mills' transition into womanhood has yet to be indicated on the screen, no matter what the publicity says. Take the whole family...