Word: medwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Intruder (Associated Artists) is a happy example of the British talent for murmuring graceful commonplaces. Made from a Robin Maugham novel, Line on Ginger, the picture begins when a stockbroker (Jack Hawkins), home from an afternoon of golf, surprises a burglar (Michael Medwin) in his house. The man proves to be "Ginger" Edwards, a soldier the broker commanded in his regiment during World War II-and a good soldier he was. What has gone wrong with him? The broker asks, but before he can get an answer, Ginger takes French leave.* As the broker goes from one to another...
...story's hero is the impulsively generous American (Ralph Meeker), who enlists the more cautious Frenchman (Dinan) and Englishman (Michael Medwin) in his efforts to keep troubled Heroine Lindfors and her husband out of the toils of the Soviet authorities. Their unofficial campaign puts the Russian in a tight spot, threatens to upset the precarious working harmony of the four-power command. The story ends with an inconclusiveness more true to life than suitable to drama: the Viennese couple finds sanctuary that seems only temporary; the American reaches a kind of understanding with the Russian that promises to last...