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Thereafter, as Margaret and Dean get sweeter, the hokum gets thicker and the film duller. Together with a little Yorkshire lad (Brian Roper), they discover a mysterious walled-up garden and start remaking it into a brilliantly Technicolored bower. They also succeed in reclaiming crusty old Herbert Marshall for a sunny, tear-washed finale...
...endurance as evidence that the welfare state was not softening Britain's youth. Ossett (pop. 15,000), Philip's home town in Yorkshire, prepared a big celebration. But his schoolmaster predicted that fame would not go to Philip's head: "He's a sound lad." Although Philip had stolen her thunder, Shirley May prettily congratulated...
...superheated spellbinder. But though it boils, toils and goes to no end of trouble, it produces far more spectacles than spells. Spectacle No. i is a fair example. In the midst of a gloomy, Golgotha-like landscape, cluttered with ruffians and sinister twisted trees, a poor gypsy lad is about to be blinded with hot irons. Suddenly a portentous cruciform light appears around the torture stake, and aided by a swarm of brother gypsies, the boy escapes. Later, he grows up to be the fabulous Count Cagliostro (Orson Welles), intimate of princes and instrument of weird hypnotic powers...
...Brussels, a policeman caught Marcel, a 14-year-old lad, illegally swimming in a canal. A perspiring judge asked the cop: "Did you see him leave the water?" "Yes, sir." "Did you see him enter the water?" "No, sir." "In that case," ruled the humane judge, "the boy is acquitted, for the regulations say that nobody is allowed to enter the canal to bathe; they don't stipulate that it is unlawful to get out of it." In the Paris zoo, penguins squatted on ice cakes. In Madrid, which justified its climatic reputation ("Nueve meses de invierno y tres...
...Dreamy Lad. British Novelist Nigel Balchin (The Small Back Room; Mine Own Executioner) doesn't know all the answers, and doesn't much care. In Borgia Testament, which pretends to be an "autobiography" written by Cesare shortly before his death, Novelist Balchin is mainly interested in trotting out a brand-new explanation of Cesare's willful ways. In Balchin's view, Cesare was a man of vision, born before his time, who hoped to do what Garibaldi finally accomplished-unite all Italy...