Word: paton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beloved Country is so earnest and virtuous that criticism of it seems almost improper--like throwing stones at a nun, say. But I am bound to say that it is a disappointing movie which hardly ever catches the strength and beauty of Alan Paton's novel of the same name from which it was taken...
...Beloved Country--A dramatic filming of Alan Paton's novel of South Africa, playing at the Astor. Gives a powerful and accurate picture of racial relations; hatreds and loves...
...young white champion of the oppressed Negroes. The victim, by a further twist of fate (and fiction), is the son of the Negro-hating landowner (Charles Carson) in whose district the minister lives. In the end, the two fathers, symbolically drawn together by a common tragedy, point up Paton's comfort-in-desolation moral of hate cast out by love...
...Beloved Country (London Films; Lopert), Alan Paton's eloquent 1948 novel about South African race relations, after being translated into everything from Zulu to Broadwayese, now comes to the screen. The cinemadaptation was done by Author Paton* and the picture is largely faithful to the original...
...Johannesburg last week Paton announced that current world conditions had left him feeling so "uncertain and politically frustrated" that he and his wife were going into seclusion for a year or more. His asylum: a Negro tuberculosis settlement some 25 miles from Durban where he will help with the manual labor.* A switch on the real-life story of Commander Howard W. Gilmore. Mortally wounded by Jap gunfire on the bridge of his submarine, Gilmore ordered his men to "Take her down!", rode to a hero's grave to save his craft...