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UP THE JUNCTION. Another London slum saga based on a novel by Nell Dunn (Poor Cow) is saved from its pulpy sociology by Director Peter Collinson's extraordinary spirit of place, and Actress Suzy Kendall's widening range of talent.
In such a plotless exercise, the film relies much too heavily on the hero's gnomish appearance and musical abilities: at one point the camera stands still while Moore's trio swings through a long and not very interesting jazz number. Miss Kendall's absurd composure seems...
Up the Junction shouts the ancient news that the rich are different from the poor: they have more money. Into broken-down Battersea comes the classy Kendall, searching for herself. In a few days she finds a factory job, a frowzy flat and a blond boy friend. The appalling squalor...
Suzy soon gets an acrid whiff of reality when a new-found girl friend at the factory finds herself pregnant. The girl nearly dies at the hands of a drunken abortionist, then recovers and gets engaged to the boy responsible for her trouble. The night of their engagement party, he...
Junction is stained with the sooty slum aura that marks much of Poor Cow (TIME, Feb. 9), and with good reason. Both films were adapted from books by Novelist Nell Dunn. Though the story too often has the quality of pulpy sociology, Junction is saved from indistinction by Director Peter...