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What saves the film from being a dull recounting of a jealous relationship between two women is the presence of Agatha's daughter, Sylvia, played by Dany Carrel. She remembers her mother's early devotion to her dead father and resents deeply Agatha's intimacy with Angelo. At the same time, she is just coming into her womanhood and feels a powerful physical attraction for Angelo, thus entering into a triangle of jealously with her mother...
...Field could not be better in a character part as the gray flannel son-in-law. He does a limited job perfectly. June Walker whines and hobbles skillfully as the girl's mother, and Nancy Pollock puts the right possessive touches into her acting of the hero's sister. Sylvia Davis and Ethel Britton handle comic roles well, even if the exaggeration is not always useful. One of them, as a cowlike neighbor, seems to emit, "I mean, what the hell" every minute or two of her life. It's funny at first...
...Manhattan music critic heading for the office from the Metropolitan Opera, it sometimes seems that everything necessary or desirable about opera was said long ago. As an antidote to that tired feeling, Free-Lance writer Sylvia Wright now suggests (in the current issue of High Fidelity) a broad new approach to opera. Author Wright, founder of what may come to be known as the Vacuum School of Criticism, reports that every Saturday afternoon in winter she cleans her Manhattan apartment to the broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, only to run into serious dusting dilemmas. "If I were not saddled with...
Emotionally, Cozzens drifted until he was himself possessed by love. He first met Sylvia Bernice Baumgarten in mid-1926 on business, when she was a fledgling literary agent for Brandt & Kirkpatrick (now Brandt & Brandt). Of his feelings at the time, he says laconically: "I suppose sex entered into it. After all, what's a woman for?" But in dedicating Son of Perdition, Cozzens was more gallant. The flyleaf is inscribed to her with these lines from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Outliving her beauty's outward, with a mind/ That doth renew swifter than blood decays." Cozzens...
...peasant, but no cad; for him, sex is a virtually impersonal bodily function, and he is delighted to find himself in the presence of three attractive targets: Agatha (Madeleine Robinson), the young widow of Angelo's best friend in a prisoner of war camp; her burgeoning teenage daughter Sylvia (Dany Carrel); her sulky sister-in-law Pia (Magali Noël), a sensuous charmer with a body like molded quicksand. Angelo is not thinking of farm labors when he eyes the ladies tauntingly and husks: "You don't have a man?" Perceiving that this will doubtless blossom into...