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...conditioning have long since accustomed the American public to superlatives of all sorts. Today's superlatives, however, must be reserved for a British product, one for which the known American descriptive vocabulary can scarcely suffice. Following close on the heels of the unforgettable "Henry V", J. Arthur Rank's "Stairway to Heaven" poses an equally compelling, if less monumental, challenge to Hollywood's celluloid supremacy...
Like most good things, "Stairway" rings the bell on the note of its unexpected freshness and intellectual maturity. Where most producers manage to distort the elementary love story into a complicated and painfully dime novel entanglement, writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Press-burger have restored this favorite theme to its original charm and simplicity...
...youthful appearance, unretouched by Max Factor, could serve as an object lesson in natural casting for American producers. Marins Goring, Roger Livesey, and Raymond Massey are other highlights of a cast entirely above reproach. Hollywood was well advised to exclude foreign productions from the Academy Award competition; if "Stairway to Heaven" is a fair example, they'd lose the Oscar for keeps...
Good things, like bad things, seem to come in bunches. This week sees five of the "ten best pictures of 1946" on the silver screens of local movie houses--"The Best Years of Our Lives," "It's a Wonderful Life," "Open City," "Stairway to Heaven" and "The Well-Digger's Daughter," the last of which enters its third week at the Exeter. Most of these pictures out-distance by far the much less attractive wares which the legitimate theater is offering currently, with the noteworthy exception of the wise and witty "Call Me Mister...
...Stairway to 'Heaven. An imaginative, pretty and pretentious British-made fantasy with David Niven, Raymond Massey and Roger Livesey (TIME...