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Despite its Technicolor parade of sun-burned, gaudily-dressed couples, Mississippi Gambler remains a drab romance. Tyrone Power's discreet gambling and puritan manner would put a benevolent granny to shame, while Piper Laurie's reception of his passion stirs some deep psychological trauma--if you care to interpolate from an occasional tear runs Without damage down her lovely face...
...greatest problem in the script was apparently to keep the lovers apart long enough to have a movie. Piper Laurie's sense of guilt for her mother's death in childbirth is the shaky scaffolding that holds her un-swerving love for her degenerate brother who hates the gambler. Under her brother's influence, Laurie marries an old friend she does not love, who later turns out to be an embezzler and a wife deserter. A neuroses shedding climax in front of her mother's portrait releases Laurie's guilt, and minutes later she winds up safely abroad a riverboat...
Lately Root has gone to England for some of Britain's best moderns. The Metropolitan show has a dark and gloomy landscape by Romanticist John Piper, examples of Graham Sutherland's thorny fantasies and Ben Nicholson's thin, surgical curves and angles. At 68, and feeling his age. Root has no idea whether the abstractionists he is now buying will eventually become recognized masters or not. But he thinks it is worth the gamble. "How else can a painter live?" he asks. "You've got to give him a chance to show what...
...Mississippi Gambler (Universal-International). As he cruises along the Mississippi on a pre-Civil War gambling boat, Tyrone Power, a dashing but honest adventurer, has all sorts of remarkable experiences. He encounters a ravishing redhead (Piper Laurie), whom he affectionately calls "pepper pot," but she declines to have anything to do with him because her weakling brother (John Baer) lost an old family heirloom to him during a game of chance. Just to complicate matters more, Piper's brother is hopelessly smitten with brunette Julia Adams, who, in turn, is infatuated with Power...
...gives as freely as he gets. He has always been a teacher, often a professional teacher-at Lawrenceville, the University of Chicago, Harvard. He cannot go to a party without taking something along to read aloud; he cannot cross the ocean without becoming the Pied Piper of the ship. His habit of pacing about a room, lecturing to his friends ("Now, my Kinder, let me tell you about . . ."), once led Theatrical Director Garson Kanin to remark: "Whenever I'm asked what college I've attended, I'm tempted to write 'Thornton Wilder.' " Over the years...