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RAPTURE. A strange farmhousehold on the coast of Brittany shelters an escaped criminal who fulfills the various needs of a preachy ex-judge (Melvyn Douglas), his other-worldly daughter (Patricia Gozzi), and a bed-minded serving wench (Gunnel Lindblom). The fulfillment is a triumph for English Director John Guillermin...
...brooding farmhouse on the coast of Brittany, surf roaring and crashing against the rocks below, lives a fierce-eyed, craggy recluse (Melvyn Douglas)−once a prominent judge in Paris, and now a bitter misanthrope who spends most of his time bombarding his onetime friends with mimeographed diatribes about justice. With him live Agnes, his "strange" daughter (Gozzi), and Karen, a sexy slattern of a maid (Gunnel Lindblom, a recruit from the stable of Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman...
...overcoming the initial incongruity of diverse accents that is inherent in the new international style of casting.* Stockwell, if a little too prettily dimpled for his own good, is a sensitive fugitive and lover; Lindblom is as undomesticated a domestic as a young sailor on the lam could wish. Melvyn Douglas, one of Hollywood's smoothest eyebrow-archers in the drawing-room comedies of the '30s, began a promising new career as Hud's grizzled old man, is even better now. But Rapture really belongs to the blazing Miss Gozzi, who begins as the same frightened, fantasy...
...bowl of cream. While millions of Britons quenu up for rations, the hero inhabits an Eden teeming with rivers of bourbon,sierras of sirloin and herds of gorgous girls who will do almost anything for a Hershey bar. Happily, there is a serpent in this paradise: an admiral (Melvyn Douglas) more concerned about congressional hearings ("They're tryin' to scrap the Navy!") than he is about the Germans...
...attack. This frolic manages, however, to be unremittingly fast, flip, energetic, and for the most part humorless. Based on a sober historical novel by Jack Schaefer (Shane), the movie attempts to spark laughs by logging the misadventures of Company Q, a detachment of Yankee misfits led by inept Colonel Melvyn Douglas and his wry-smiling lieutenant, Glenn Ford. The boobs under their command include a firebug, a flagpole sitter, a kleptomaniac, a skittish soldier afflicted with an untimely burp, and assorted psychopaths...