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The story is about probation officers--or, more properly, about a prematurely retired civil servant, who becomes a probation officer in default of anything better to do, and who gradually comes to realize what's what in the world. The acting, most of it done by Cecil Parker and Celia...
Epstein's blast was only the most recent in a row that has been rumbling ever since Abstractionist Reg Butler's cagelike Prisoner won first prize in the competition and an infuriated visitor to the show crushed the winning model in his fists. (His punishment: ten months on...
In addition to the two students expelled from Dartmouth, a third was suspended until September, 1954, three were placed on probation until next February, and two were given "official warning." Almost all the students involved were freshmen, and the party took place in a freshman dormitory. The names of the...
The direction and acting are more restrained than the plot. Celia (Brief Encounter) Johnson makes the part of a dedicated probation officer warmly moving. As a retired Colonial-Office official who decides to take up probation work, Cecil Parker brings a jauntily sly humor to his role.
Cure. In Manchester, England, Steel-worker Edward Eckersley, who hit his 61-year-old mother on the head with an ax, was only put on probation after a detective told the court: "She suffers from high blood pressure and he genuinely believed the old wives' story that a blow...