Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bogart knows his way perfectly around this sort of plot. He finds out who murdered his wife and his best friend (he is accused of murdering them), disposes of a petty crook (Clifton Young) who has latched onto him for blackmail, and gets set for the ultimate clinch with Miss Bacall...
...with the audience-sees the world through the hero's eyes: rolling downhill in a barrel (he is a convict making a break); watching a cop's hand paw dangerously into his hideout in Lauren Bacall's auto (he is a convict getting a break); watching Miss Bacall register lovelight as she looks into the lens (a break cinemaddicts have had before...
...Zetterling) of the demobilized Englishman (David Farrar) can't be wholly "guilty" and is perhaps hardly "guilty" at all. A large part of the picture merely shows Mr. Farrar's mother (Barbara Everest), political-minded aunt (Flora Robson) and fellow townsmen slowly getting used to the obvious. Miss Zetterling's brother (Albert Lieven), on the other hand, is as fanatical a Nazi as Hitler himself; so there is no very interesting question about brother's guilt...
...Miss Robertson, in charge of the playground, found, like others before her, that the children got far more affection than those of small upper-class families. But it was casual affection; at the end of hot summer days-so Miss Robertson was told-the police could always pick up a score or so of babies left behind on Dublin Bay strand...
...says a little prayer for the whole huroosh." Twisty Nellie's story, like the story of how the tinker's daughter quelled "blowing" (a nasty kind of shivaree) after her wedding, cries aloud for more narrative art than Miss Robertson...