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...story and Treasure of Sierra Madre as a film in which "women sold their souls," now hints pretty broadly of something sexy in The Hasty Heart. Adapted from John Patrick's 1945 Broadway hit, the film deals with nothing spicier than the last days of a proud, lonely Scottish soldier who is dying in a British army hospital in Burma. What makes the picture good-and the advertising trick twice as shabby-is its success in recapturing the play's disarming mixture of tart humor and genuine pathos...
What makes "Mary" especially unfortunate is that a similar combination of Hepburn, Scotland, and good music worked out fine in "The Little Minister." You get the feeling that Ford must have been pretty lost in the 16th century Scottish hills, without even a six-shooter or a cavalry troop to keep him company...
...jaunty, Gallic grandpere (Edgar Stehli), are French-Canadians living in Ottawa in the early 19205. There are grandpère's three sons-a "crazy violinist" (Claude Dauphin), a round-the-clock tosspot (Kurt Kasznar), and a round-the-town ladies' man (Richard Hart); his often disapproving Scottish-Presbyterian daughter-in-law (Leora Dana); and his grandson (Johnny Stewart) who stands on the curb of adolescence waiting for his voice to change. When a pretty girl (Eva Gabor) comes to help with the housework, love stirs for the first time in the ladies...
Tight Little Island (Rank; Universal-International). To the rugged inhabitants of the mythical Hebridean island of Todday, off the Scottish coast, the middle of the war brought a calamity "wor-r-rse than Hitler-r's bombs": there was no more whisky. Then a U.S.-bound vessel carrying 50,000 cases of Scotch ran aground off Todday's craggy harbor. All that stood between the parched islanders and a joyously illegal salvage job was the bumbling Englishman (Basil Radford) who, as the island's Home Guard captain, felt constrained to enforce the letter...
...direction is responsible for the success of the farce. He keeps all the characters moving with complete sincerity throughout the outlandish situation. Basil Radford's portrayal of the consistently thick-headed Waggett is also very good. The rest of the cast succeed in creating a background of pleasant Scottish folk...