Word: pipit
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...Tawny Pipit. A sweet-tempered pastoral comedy about English bird lovers who practically forget the war watching a pair of rare birds (TIME...
...Tawny Pipit. Very English but very agreeable fun about a pair of rare birds that set an ornithophilous English village on its ear (TIME...
...Tawny Pipit (Rank; Prestige) is -to the English-an exceptionally rare species of titlark. When a pair of them nest in an English field, for the second time on record, World War II becomes about as important, at least to England's more avid ornithologists, as a movie organist's spot between features. England's lay bird lovers are almost as deeply stirred; the whole village of Lipsbury Lea is determined that the pipits shall hatch their brood in peace...
...hands of René Clair, this yarn might have become a wonderful piece of fun. Bernard Miles and Charles Saunders, who collaborated in writing and directing Pipit, are not quite equal to their idea; and Mr. Miles, who is too young to play the colonel, is not quite up to his role. Now & then the picture, probably the most intensely insular movie the British have yet exported to the U.S., becomes too clumsy or too coy; from beginning to end it is as genteel as rectory crumpets. And though none of the classical Village Types is revealed on the level...