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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honest, occasionally touching effort to dramatize what Dylan Thomas called the puny measure of happiness that "time allows . . . Before the children green and golden/ Follow him out of grace." The movie also follows through to treat the children's vast measure of unhappiness after 16-year-old Arthur Bartley and his 15-year-old girl friend Janet fall from grace and into the evil clutches of an abortionist. The fault here seems to lie not so much with the youngsters' incautious lovemaking, or even with the devil in their flesh, as with obtuse parents, who are never properly...
...anxious scenes of awakening love that Director-Co-Writer Philip Dunne manages to capture the pains and confusion of adolescence and the awful homemade isolation of children from their parents. He is fortunate to have as the children plaintive, pony-tailed Carol Lynley, 17. and blond, handsome 17-year-old Brandon de Wilde, who has acquired longer legs and a deeper voice since he played the small boy in Shane. Both are quietly affecting in the difficult acting chore of seeming ineffectual...
...most of Blue Denim will not quite wash. All the good intentions of Producer Charles Brackett fail to keep the picture from looking like a rerun of an old Studio One Summer Theater. It is too often stilted, static, unreal, and riddled with tasteless jokes and cliches that would embarrass Helen Trent. It is also awkwardly resolved: the play ended with the girl surviving the abortion-and only then did the walls of noncommunication tumble -but the movie tacks on a climactic chase in the night, in which the boy's father snatches the girl from danger, then gives...
Except for some bracing outdoor scenes, shot in southern Arizona, of amber plains, crystalline streams and Corot-cool forests, strikingly composed by Director John (The Old Man and the Sea) Sturges, the picture is mostly one long, gun-slinging showdown that fairly oozes blood and bathos. One tough gets his right through a poker table, another is mowed down by a sawed-o^ shotgun at close range. The hell-bent kid is killed by mistake by one of his own saddle-bum chums...
There is nothing-and nobody-left for Kirk Douglas to shoot down but his old friend, in a fair draw. Justice done, he hops the last train from Gun Hill. As his late friend's tart (Carolyn Jones) remarks: "Ya gotta admire someone who's got that much guts...