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...Producer Anthony (Quartet) Darnborough and Director Terence Fisher. Taking a loosely knit story, they have tightened it stitch by stitch with skillful timing, intelligent camera work and imaginative sound effects to produce a superior suspense film. Most suspenseful sequence: the SS general slowly stalking a victim in a twilight forest while the sound track listens with hair-raising patience to the chirp of crickets, a night bird, and the final telltale crack of a breaking twig...
...TWILIGHT ON THE FLOODS (782 pp.) -MorguenYe Steen - Steen-Doubleday...
Marguerite Steen's 1941 best selling nov el, The Sun Is My Undoing, was all about the hot-blooded Flood family of Bristol and how they made their 18th Century fortunes slave-trading on the sultry Gold Coast. Twilight takes over where Sun set, and sweeps the swelling Floods up to the brink of the 20th Century - leaving no doubt that at least one more huge tome is going to have to be purred over by Author Steen before the moonlight dissolves...
...Twilight contains just about everything that an adolescent mind could want, in cluding characters such as Lady Orabella Sax, Arethusa Lever, Captain Elias Wild-blood and Alden Galahad Paget. What's more, Author Steen lays bare the very sur face of their natures: "Superbly nude, [Dorset Flood] lounged elegantly on the window sill"; "Plump and glossy as a young calf, there was something in [Polly Bowling] that vibrated...
...major portion of Author Steen's book concerns Hero Johnny Flood's tussles with witch doctors and rebellious Negroes on the Gold Coast-a he-man's world which supplies the crunchier passages of Twilight's prevailing nougat. It also provides Author Steen with one of her most stunning sentences: "On the poop of the Rembwe, Macpherson's beard burnt like an oriflamme...