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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Angry Age. A strong but uneven picture, derived from The Sea Wall, a memorable novel about French pioneers in Indo-China; with Anthony Perkins and Jo Van Fleet (TIME, June...
This Angry Age. A strong but uneven picture, derived from The Sea Wall, a memorable novel about French pioneers in Indo-China; with Anthony Perkins and Jo Van Fleet (TIME, June...
This Angry Age. A strong but uneven picture, derived from The Sea Wall, a memorable novel about French pioneers in Indo-China; with Anthony Perkins and Jo Van Fleet (TIME, June...
...children of the plain the most miserable were the widow Dufresne (Jo Van Fleet) and her two grown children (Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano), because they knew that they were miserable. The picture tells how the little family of French pioneers fought the sun and the sea and the jungle but were slowly devoured by the usual worms of lust and greed and indolence. And in the family's fall is mutely, eloquently epitomized the larger collapse of the French regime beneath what used to be called the white man's burden...
...rest of the picture describes, in too much detail, how. the city hastened the deterioration of the family. Unfortunately, the moviemakers felt obliged to provide a happy ending; but it could easily have been worse, and so could Silvana Mangano. Jo Van Fleet is first-rate, and Tony Perkins, a skillful young man who has gained his craft so easily that he may be in danger of losing his art, does the best work of his brief screen career. Chief credit belongs to the director, France's René Clement (Forbidden Games, Gervaise). He has done some...