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...weary when he finally arrived in London early Monday morning. But with his usual cockiness, he drawled: "I've been up two nights now and I feel fine." He apparently wanted to demonstrate that his stamina had not been impaired by the paralysis that confines him to a wheelchair...
...room last week, the most troubling task of judging they faced was not to be found in the dry briefs or research papers. How were they to deal with a human condition-the physical and mental capacity of the senior Justice, who arrived for the conference in his wheelchair...
...side, eyes that shone green when he was excited, stiff military mustache, air of dignity immense!" Alas, last week Christie announced that the archetypal armchair detective, who had been portrayed on film by Actors Tony Randall, Albert Finney and others, had finally finished his long career. Old, infirm and wheelchair-ridden, he would meet his end in her next novel, Curtain -or Poirot's Last Case. Although Poirot's final exploit was originally written in 1940 and locked away until now, the business-wise author declined to reveal any details, preferring to keep them a mystery until Curtain...
...process of her rehabilitation which makes up most of this movie, eventually allowed her very limited movement and mobility in a wheelchair. Although Kinmont was retained as a technical adviser for this film, Larry Peerce (Goodbye Columbus, Ash Wednesday) has directed it with great doses of moral uplift and sentiment. The Other Side of the Mountain is photographed in the blindingly bright colors of a souvenir postcard, but is even less useful. It is too heavy for mailing and far too light to take seriously...
Brave Struggle. All the familiar material of rehabilitation melodrama is here: doubtful doctors and blind determination; parents trying to be brave, a fiancé who has pledged true love wilting away from the full force of the tragedy, other patients being both cynical and supportive as Jill masters her wheelchair. Her struggle is abetted by another skier, a cordial eccentric called "Mad Dog" Dick Buek (Beau Bridges) who wants to marry her. She greets his initial proposal with one of those speeches about pity that seem to be required by films like this the way a western needs a Shootout...