Word: kite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Least successful of the "Quartet," "The Kite" indulges in some contrived symbolism to point up the struggle between a mother and wife for a young man's affections. The acting of the mother is exceptionally good but once again the author descends to the maudlin to close his story and good acting is not enough to redeem the plot...
...over the place, and doctors were playing it. The Negro doctors who crowded the hotel were delegates to the annual convention of their own National Medical Association; the A.M.A. "observers" and their displays were there to persuade the N.M.A. to hitch itself as a tail to the A.M.A. kite. They failed to tie the knot...
Story No. i (The Facts of Life) is a pleasant, inconsequential gag and No. 2 (The Alien Corn) a piece of out & out bathos. But script No. 3 is a solid bite of meatiest Maugham. The Kite is the story of Herbert Sunbury (George Cole), a simple-minded city lad with a possessive mom (Hermione Baddeley) and a small boy's passion for flying kites on the local commons. But Herbert's young bride wants him with no kite strings-nor silver cords-attached. When he refuses to cut loose, she kicks him out and plays...
...theme, Producer Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil) and Director Arthur Crabtree have built a wryly humorous study of lower-middle-class life in a London suburb. The camera moves with a sharp, knowing eye from the vulgar pretensions of tea in the Sunbury parlor to Herbert's wonderful kite straining and swooping in a fine summer breeze. Though Herbert and his wife are happily reconciled (over a kite string on the commons), the movie never compromises with the silver cord. As Herbert's mom, Hermione Baddeley gives a viciously distinguished performance...
...lamentable fact overlooked by Trud: when reports of Franklin's experiment reached Russia, Russian Scientist Georgy V. Richwan lofted a bigger, more aggressive kite and electrocuted himself...