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...Stranger In Between (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International), called Hunted in England, is a suspense-filled movie about a six-year-old orphan boy who falls in with a murderer fleeing from the police. The chase, leading across England and Scotland and through a series of such colorful settings as a pawnshop, a boarding house, an amusement gallery and a small fishing village, has been staged with cinematic vigor by Director Charles (The Lavender Hill Mob) Crichton...
...Stranger In Between also offers what is rarer in a chase film: the human sympathy that grows up between the orphan boy, who is afraid to return to his cruel foster parents, and the young man, who has killed his floozy-wife's lover. At first the two string along together out of necessity, but finally each develops a real affection for the other. Dirk Bogarde gives an intense performance as the fugitive, and towheaded Jon Whiteley is a sad-eyed, touching figure...
Bedikian has not always done that well. A serious artist since he was 15, he learned to draw with chalk as an orphan at a French school in Beirut, soon set out for Paris, doing sidewalk portraits along the way for carfare. In the early '30s, Bedikian spurned the schools and studied alone at the Louvre. He took odd jobs retouching photos for rent money, each night made the rounds of his friends' homes to be sure of a dinner. For eight years his only success was a single picture shown at the 1936 Beaux Arts salon...
Paula (Columbia) works up a rich soap-opera lather over the problems of its heroine (Loretta Young). She runs down an orphan boy (Tommy Rettig) in her car, and the boy becomes mute as a result of the accident. Childless Paula adopts the boy and sets about teaching him to talk again, although she realizes that once he regains the power of speech he may identify her to the police as the hit-&-run driver. To complicate matters a bit more, the slightest scandal would ruin the chances of Paula's husband (Kent Smith) becoming dean of his college...
...Olympics, U.S. women beat some relatively easy competition to place third, outshining the U.S. men, who wound up seven notches below the Finnish champions. U.S. Olympic Coach Gene Wettstone, who calls U.S. gymnastics an "orphan sport," remains glum. Eying American prospects for Helsinki this summer, he thinks "foreign countries will probably top us again...