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...Stripling, Captain Scott (Kenneth More), and to follow him he assembles an improbable rout of colonial types: the pudgy little rajah (Govind Raja Ross), his noisy American governess (Lauren Bacall), the British governor's unflappable wife (Ursula Jeans) and dithering secretary (Wilfrid Hyde White), a nefarious newsman (Herbert Lorn), two stolid Sikhs attached to primordial machine guns, a charming person (I.S. Johar) who runs locomotives, and an unspeakable person (Eugene Deckers) who runs guns. They all pile into an ancient passenger car drawn by a wondrously dilapidated steam engine called "Victoria"-apparently because it was built in the year...
...tale loups along wi' a high jink an' diddle, an' forbye 'twill gie the whole bairntime a blype o' kecklin an' snirtlin. Attour, the spunkie singin' o' Brochan Lorn Tana Lorn an' the sicht o' the banks an' braes o' bonnie Argyll in sic a spairge o' green an' gowd is like to hae the harigals out o' ony mon wi' a drap o' Scottish bluid, an' that's the fu' graip o' gulravage...
Victory is within his grasp. Will he permit it to be snatched from him by the villain (Herbert Lorn), a sneery guide from the neighboring valley who sneaks off in the predawn darkness to beat him to the top? The last reel of the picture finds him chasing the wretch up what purports to be (but obviously is not) the sheer east face of the Matterhorn, in an exhibition of freehanded folly that made one old Alpinist who saw the picture snicker and inquire: "Why not do it on roller skates? It's just as safe...
...clearly and prettily as possible while still maintaining a reasonable degree of intensity. The Old Vic actors take this tack, and here again competence is the order of the evening, although Barbara Jefford is too solid and self-assured to be right for Viola. Half the pathos of the lorn and lonely girl, washed up on a strange and almost friendless coast, is lost when the actress gives the impression that she is perfectly capable of taking care of herself...
...check led, inevitably, to the bar. (The pornographic murals have been replaced by flowered wall-paper.) Idealists and mothers' sons gave her the vote--and she sent Eisenhower to Korea. She invaded poetry and journalism, industry and politics, legal courts and graduate schools. She wrote advice to the love-lorn. Those twin sisters of feminine freedom--Adultery and Alimony--turned suburbia into Sodom and rendered Scollay Square passe...