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...unabashedly tearful and trite film is the work of several talented people. It is based on a New Yorker short story entitled "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut." ("Poor, little Uncle Wiggily," says Miss Hayward, speaking of herself, "always trying to be helpful and always getting hurt.") The director is Mark Robson who directed "Champion" and "Home of the Brave." Miss Hayward, as well as Robert Keith, who plays her weary-wise father, are quite satisfactory in their roles. I doubt that Miss Hayward is deserving of an "Oscar" for this film, but as unwed mothers and alcoholies have won over...
...eyed moments, this damp fable is brightened by some well-written patches of wryly amusing dialogue. The whole picture wears an air of quality, thanks to Samuel Goldwyn's handsome production and a group of sincere performances directed by Mark (Champion) Robson. Robert Keith, a Broadway veteran playing his first screen role, acts the heroine's sympathetic father with sure skill. But nothing offsets the blight of such tear-splashed excesses as the bloop-bleep-bloop of a sentimental ballad on the sound track. Also, the film's makers seem to have shot two different endings...
Champion. A prizefight film that made reputations for Producer Stanley Kramer, Director Mark Robson and Actor Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...
Director Mark Robson, who made the picture for RKO shortly before rocketing into the limelight with Champion (TIME, April 11), imprinted it with several signs of his fresh style. For one thing, there is an intelligent use of sound. Small, natural noises-the clop of hooves and the rattle of stones under the wagon wheels-take on weight and value. Spots of unbroken silence have the quality of noonday sunlight on an empty plain. Other refreshing and honest touches: the homely treatment of four frontier chippies (including Gloria Grahame); the persuasively intimate feel of the western countryside; the sensitive cinematic...
...great shakes as either drama or suspense, Roughshod nevertheless exhibits several very good reasons why Director Robson, now making movies for Samuel Goldwyn, is one of the most sought after young directors in the business...