Word: whiteley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boisterous old (67) Hugh Dalton submitted his resignation from the Shadow Cabinet and suggested that other oldsters do likewise. Emanuel Shinwell, 70, and William Whiteley, 72, longtime Labor whip, followed suit. So did schoolmasterly old (72) Chuter Ede, because he thought younger men needed experience in leadership...
...movie faithfully echoes other good movies: the graveyard encounter between boy and convict in Great Expectations is almost exactly reproduced, while the affectionate bond between a rogue and youngster that illumined both Kidnapped and Treasure Island is duplicated in Moonfleet by Rapscallion Stewart Granger and Orphan Jon Whiteley...
...plot turns upon a lost diamond of great price, but mostly the film is a string of lively, unrelated escapades. Granger plays the picaresque gentleman with style, and seems equally at home embracing a flamenco dancer, dodging thrown knives, or winning a duel with a halberd-swinging smuggler. Jon Whiteley, who distinguished himself in last year's The Little Kidnappers (TIME, Sept. 6), proves again that Britain still has the world monopoly on believable child stars...
...Little Kidnappers. Two small boys on a farm in Nova Scotia: one of the best pictures ever made about childhood; with Duncan Macrae, Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter; directed by Philip Leacock (TIME, Sept...
...surpassing movie, The Little Kidnappers (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists), directed by Philip Leacock and written by Novelist Neil Paterson (Man on the Tightrope), whose script is a fable as deep-going and sweet-running as any on the children's shelf. The innocence of the children. Jon Whiteley as Harry and Vincent Winter as Davy, pierces the heart like a spring morning, and Duncan Macrae and Jean Anderson are fearfully true to life as the boys' Scottish Calvinist grandparents. The photography, by Eric Cross, fills the background with a balmy, natural murmur that seems to heal...