Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a film that explores moral complexities. The wife is brought to her deepest ruthlessness not only by her own genuine love and her own innate weakness, but also by beginning to learn the worst about her husband, by perceiving that she may lose her lover through the best that is in him, and crucially, by her husband's most earnest efforts to face his own evil, and to be good to her. Moreover, the young lovers' sin of youthfulness is perceived with complete compassion, even by the husband...
Dear "Murderer (Rank; Universal-International) is a man who tries to commit the perfect crime, by murdering his wife's lover. Eric Portman is wearily proficient as the murderer; Greta Gynt is blowsily sexy as the wife. The forces of British law & order are, as usual, so immaculately polite about their business that it might tempt some U.S. observers to mayhem, just for the pleasure of meeting them. Occasionally there is a flicker of ingenuity or fright, but most of this picture is sad, stock-company stuff...
...takes rooms across the hall. Busy with more full-blown girls, he scarcely realizes that she exists. When her family moves, Lisa cannot endure the separation; she runs away, and haunts certain Viennese coffee houses and street corners until the pianist picks her up. During their short affair her lover experiences a faint glimmer of tenderness which might end his philandering, but it doesn't register strongly enough for him to bother looking her up when he returns from a concert tour. Lisa bears his child, marries rich for his son's sake, tries to make a life...
Albert Guerard certainly takes such care in his story entitled "Miss Prindle's Lover." It is the closest approach to old-style narrative in the magazine, and whether you happen to be interested or not--I was--in a story about the peculiar attraction a middle-aged spinster has for a young man, it is impossible to deny that Guerard has drawn convincing characters and taken them through a series of comprehensible events, rare virtues indeed...
...Ester McCracken and has a east that is probably unknown in this country, even in Boston. The acting and the direction are so smooth and appropriate to the setting and story that they can go unnoticed as such. However, the superb comedy antics of Frank Cellier as the befuddled lover-fisherman, and that of Edward Rigby as the village tosspot, deserve singling out for special praise. There is also a spirited young miss named Barbara White, whose freshness and beauty remind us of an old ideal we once had, oh, many years ago. After the Dickens movie, "Quiet Weekend," with...