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...running duel between an American mogul and a canny crew of scotch boatmen, High and Dry is best when the Scots are trying to keep the mogul form repossessing a cargo that, by mistake, he gave them for hauling. They are quite casual about the chase, however, always ready to stop for some pheasant poaching, and positively avid to scrap the whole thing, put to shore and have a party. This attitude naturally distresses the mogul...
Brando on Brando. Last week Actor Brando, interviewed by a TIME correspondent in his dressing room on the Désirée set, tried hard to scotch such talk and to explain his behavior. "I'll be damned if I feel obliged to defend myself," he burst out in a cultured and fervent half-whisper, "but I am sick to death of being thought of as a blue-jeaned slobbermouth and I am sick to death of having people come up and say hello and then just stand there expecting you to throw a raccoon at them...
...Hepburn shows it off to better advantage, she has her tender years and coquettish personality to thank. Youth and coquettry are most appealing, but someone should commend to Miss Hepburn the additional value of acting. Almost everyone knows that she is a fine actress and a little proof would scotch the few contrary rumors...
...this Scotch-potch, Director Vincente Minnelli (Father of the Bride, An American in Paris) is a little unsteady on his feet, but when he gets them back on the solid floor of a U.S. barroom, he stands firm and delivers a raucously funny parody of life among the cocktail houris and their 5 o'clock shadows...
...cheer for the import of Scotch whisky, but perhaps there ought to be a stiffer tariff on Scotch whimsey. The latest cinematic highball, High and Dry [TIME, Sept. 13], is every bit as charming as your excellent movie reviewer says it is, in fact, so relentlessly charming that about halfway through one longs for a refreshing draft of Mickey Spillane. But underneath all the charm, the picture is a perfect allegory of America's fate in Europe...