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...looking bitter and tired, old Pastor Malan hearkened to the fanatics, announced in Parliament that he would end the court's "interference" with acts of the legislature. From all over the Union came angry protests; Torch supporters paraded through the streets of Cape Town and Johannesburg, demanding: "Malan, scram!" Ominous too were the stirrings in the great Bantu slums, where Nationalist police confiscated truckloads of "murderous weapons...
...weighty story of the racial injustice of South Africa. An excellent story, I hasten to add, but one so poignant that it needs relief of some sort. From the very beginning when the old native pastor sets off to seek his lost sister and son in the hellhole of Johannesburg, and through the whole story of his agonies on learning that his sister is a prostitute and his son a murderer, and also in the collateral story of the sufferings of the English landowner whose son is killed, there is little relief to be found in the plot...
Intellectually, then, it is important that all the major opinion be brought out and scrutinized. But the movie version inexplicably omits one whole school of thought, that of the semi-revolutionary natives, embodied in the colored pastor's brother, a great agitator in Johannesburg. This severely damages the intellectual balance of the Christian solution have only to defeat the relatively poor arguments of the white supremacists...
Zoltan Korda affectionately filmed the picture almost entirely in the real locales: Ixopo, Carisbrooke and Johannesburg. There are expansive shots of rolling green hills, played-out mining areas and savage slums. But the camera, with its realistic eye, can also confine and shackle. Though Cry, the Beloved, Country has much of the novel's passion, it has lost some of the poetry. The lens brings into harsh focus the artifices which trick out the theme yet cast little light on the problems of the dark continent...
...Johannesburg last week Paton announced that current world conditions had left him feeling so "uncertain and politically frustrated" that he and his wife were going into seclusion for a year or more. His asylum: a Negro tuberculosis settlement some 25 miles from Durban where he will help with the manual labor.* A switch on the real-life story of Commander Howard W. Gilmore. Mortally wounded by Jap gunfire on the bridge of his submarine, Gilmore ordered his men to "Take her down!", rode to a hero's grave to save his craft...