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Between these points, her life has its tough spots--as has the film--but it is a relentless series of misfortunes. Director Rene Clement and his star, Maria Schell, have played this exhausting saga for every sob, every simper and every sordid detail. They have come with up an absorbing, at times sickening, film, but one which never reaches its goal of tragedy and which is more depressing than it is genuinely moving...
...written about his three years in Borstal tie and short, school-uniform pants ("like a bleedin' boy scout"). The second published work (1958) by an author known in the U.S. chiefly for his play, The Quare Fellow (TIME, Dec. 8), Borstal Boy is a rousing reform-school saga...
Without some such mental preamble, the saga of Eugene Henderson, the quixotic hero of Saul (The Adventures of Augie March) Bellow's new novel, is apt to seem little more than the portrait of one of nature's fall guys, a well-heeled goof. When readers first meet Henderson, he is (a) rich, (b) not a knight, (c) 55, (d) has nothing to do except raise pigs as a hobby and dream about Sir Wilfred Grenfell and Albert Schweitzer. Suddenly he acquires "a form of madness . . . the pursuit of sanity." He flees his wife and family...
Nine Lives (Norwegian). The saga of a Norwegian fighting his way through a hell of ice and snow, escaping the Nazis...
...makes the top; he's a hit. Yet security is fleeting, even for an idol, and the saga ends with the sad refrain...