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PoHyanna. Walt Disney's best live-actor movie to date sticks to the original lachrymose plot like warm icing to a sugar bun, tells the simpering story of the horrid little prig (intelligently acted by 13-year-old Hayley Mills) whose armor of cheerfulness and joy remains impenetrable to the sniffly...
Pollyanna. Walt Disney's best live-actor movie to date sticks to the original tear-jerking plot like icing to a sugar bun, tells the simpering story of the horrid little prig (intelligently acted by 13-year-old Hayley Mills) whose armor of cheerfulness and joy remains impenetrable to the bitter...
...movies. But chief credit for the film's success belongs to 13-year-old Hayley Mills, the youngest member of what may at the moment be the most successful family in show business.* With her grace, intelligence and unstagy freshness, she has made the horrid little prig she plays seem almost as nice as the authoress intended...
...Dean) is really a good guy at heart, but there is no one around to tell him he is "no good" because his father has rejected him. His pranks are worthy of a Tom Sawyer--but the complication lies in the fact that his brother Aaron is not a prig or toady, but a good guy too. To further complicate the situation, Alma (Julie Harris), the "Becky Sharp" of the story is Aaron's girl...
...tool of the "Middlebrow Counter-Revolution.'' With much justice, Critic Macdonald ridicules the involved Cozzens style. With far less justice, he maintains-in a dubious bit of critical mind reading-that Hero Winner is not really the character Cozzens had meant to create; he is a prig, where Cozzens wanted to create an ideal man. In fact, Arthur Winner, like most men, is a mixed character-part righteous man, part self-righteous-and as such he will long continue to fascinate readers...