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Sooner or later, movies with children in the title roles come to a point where neither the child nor his supporting adults can look at one another without becoming highly emotional. Those who like these eye-wetting denouements will find. "The Mudlark" both heartwarming and soul-satisfying; others should leave five minutes before the end of the film...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/25/1951 | See Source »

...Mudlark. Producer-Scripter Nunnally Johnson's deft version of the legend about the urchin whose devotion to the crown coaxed Queen Victoria out of a 15-year solitude (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 22, 1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...Mudlark. Producer-Scripter Nunnally Johnson's deft version of the legend about the urchin whose devotion to the crown coaxed Queen Victoria out of a 15-year solitude (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 15, 1951 | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...Mudlark. Producer-Scripter Nunnally Johnson's deft version of the legend about the urchin whose devotion to the Crown coaxed Queen Victoria out of a 15-year solitude (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 8, 1951 | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...head of an otherwise all-British cast, Actress Dunne shares honors with her make-up man for a competent, unspectacular performance. As Disraeli, Alec (Kind Hearts and Coronets) Guinness gives a superb reading of a long, eloquent speech in the House of Commons, turning the mudlark's adventure into an affair of state. Most of the time, however, Guinness plays with a mincing air that suggests Richard Haydn's caricature of an over-prim Englishman. The Mudlark owes its best performances to Finlay Currie, playing an outspoken, sozzled old Scot in the Queen's service, and eleven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 1, 1951 | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

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