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Director Preminger has done well with his actors, too. David Niven is remarkable as the sort of rake that accumulates his life in his face, like a pile of dead leaves. Deborah Kerr provides one transcendent scene in which, as she overhears her man with another woman, her prim, pretty English face breaks up like a cooky in the fingers of a child. And Jean Seberg, rebounding from her disastrous debut as Joan of Arc (TIME, July 1), blooms with just the right suggestion of unhealthy freshness, a cemetery flower...
...England town is filmed with neither the whales-and-ale quaintness of a picture postcard nor the brooding gloom of an H. P. Lovecraft horror story. Camden, Me. (chosen for the film setting because Gilmanton, N.H., where Novelist Metalious wrote the book, does not look the part) is prim, bleak or beautiful, but never stagy, and the townsfolk extras look and act like people. What is even rarer, so do most of the actors. Dialogue between a couple of beady-eyed spring peepers at a swimming hole: "Nekkid?" "Nekkid!" Arthur Kennedy, as a bestial Yankee shack dweller, is frightening...
...jungles of Thailand during World War II, where British prisoners, at forced labor, are building a railroad from Bangkok to Rangoon. At one prison camp along the way, the fanatical Japanese commandant, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), is having trouble. The senior officer of a new consignment of prisoners, a prim old pukka sahib named
Deprived of absolution-there was a queue at the box, and Verlaine had never had to wait for anything before-he decided to be redeemed by the love of a pure angel. For this he selected 16-year-old Mathilde Maute, prim and pretty authoress of a poem beginning, "How powerful is a woman's tear!" Verlaine so worshiped her that he stopped going to brothels, and when their marriage had to be postponed, suffered what he perplexedly called "a disappointment that one might almost describe as carnal...
...mother of three children (one of them in his teens) Caitlin was expected by the prim and proper Welsh ladies to wear her widow's weeds decorously. Instead, "I stole their sons and husbands." By her testimony, she used sex to drown her grief, but it did not work: there was only "an increase in my inescapable dedication to Dylan." With the Welsh ladies' faces set against her like so many druid stones, Caitlin took her five-year-old son Colm and fled into exile, to the Italian island of Elba...