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-SHADOWS BEFORE

"LIFE WITH FATHER" (Queen's) STARS: William Powell, Irene

Dunne,

In case there is, after all, some- me who has not heard of "Life With Father," it is the story of the viscissitudes of le In the Day household, a life made both

Almost everybody who can read English must have heard of this story at one ilme ori kay and trying by the obstinate- another-either In its original

Ly forthright views held by form as book by

"Father" Y the way a house- Clarence

bold and family should be run. Day Jr., as a play adopted from the book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse, or in its present shape as

ilm In "CLUNY BROWN" (King's)

brazen locks of the Day males, In other respects Technicolor seems to have the same effect in this show па in matry others, Though undoubtedly an improve-

on binck-and-white ment tends to give everything a very newly-painted appearance (in- cluding the east) which cannot help but detract from the since- rity of the performance an whole.

Nevertheless, "Life With Father" would still be a good Alm were

were it made in sepia, William Powell is

is a magnificent "Father." One can scarcely Im- ngine his ever having played such

5 things as the "Thin Man" parts when one sees him now.

Jones.

know

that

Topical Cinema Emerged From War

nulural that, from

the

But once the war is over. the Boyer, as Professor Be-whole situation, as for as the linski,

skl, a penniless Czech with audience is concerned, changes. formidable command

and of the Eng-You can lish tongue, is his usual self. He audience receptive to catchwords no longer rely an on

world of

any

"CLUNY. BROWN"

the

Ch. duyar, Reginald Gardiner and Jennifer

• huddle under a clogged-up sink white Boyer are "his phlio. Jonen sophy, Miss Jones acts the plumber and Gardiner

mixed alarm and impatience.

registark

vision of colour, and rhythm,

319 mood

013

'Che renaissance of the Bri- shown. Audiences were still ac- tish cinema under war candi- customed to the undertone heroles tions has been written about of the war documentary: in and talked about ad nauseam.

tuse, there was a certain pre- ! The new concentration on the judice against film verlons of national theme and the national Shakespeare - undersinifiable, character, the development, of

when you remember, say, Holly- Technicolor. The colour part of STARS: Charles Boyer, Jennifermentary film, the influence of eminent stage actors who decid

a new kind of fictional docu-wood's "Romeo and Juliet" there พลง even prejudice against the film is most important in

A falt section of the large fletion film itself these are cinema how to make flims.

documentary technique on the ed

to show the at least one direction. It shows

number of people wonderful up to

effect the

who read all commonplaces. And it is Suddenly, eyes accustomed to Margery Sharp consider

Cluny Brown" is her best perate straits of the war, some emphasis which had become the des the realism, the laconic under- book to date. They will be kind of topical cinema should hall-mark of the British wartime depend on Noel Coward for much organ to enjoy their buppy 10

that their emerge, said the London lim cinema, were duzzled by a new of their material. Before the end favourite has been treated critic Dilys Powell in a B.B.C.

own Alms about their own people more than handsomely by Ernst Lubitsch talk.

and poetry. Suddenly, there, in the war. David Lean dirested in the film version. That is to:

hey the cinema, was the brilliance two m versions of plays by crooner in

enjoyed me about the say, the story has

the cabaret, or the been ad- During a war you do not and the splendour of great litera- Coward: "This

Happy hered to

Ureed stunning pair of legs at the night most faithfully.

need to create sympathy in ture, but accompanied, illuminand "Blithe Spirit," with Ronald club. It would be hard to imagine a your audience for the hero of the audience was lifted out of graphy,

sted by a new victial splendour. Neame director of photo-

Honourable and "happler choice for the title rol war; the sympathy is already

well-acted thian Jennifer Jones. She man- there. There is even a certain stoicism into a great rush of ru- David Lean made for himself a

and of resignation

The in the autumn of 1943, pasionally, there was

films succeeded ong another. Oc- ages just the right touch of sop readiness to accept propaganda, mantle imaglantion,

an over- histicated naivele which is the or the moral tale.

hang from the war; for instance, reputation which was to become Those of us who saw "Henry international by his, direction of

n "The Captive Heart," a sound hallmark of Sharp heroines.

Mr.

piece of work about prisoners of V." will not forget the excite-Brief Encounter." ment which possessed us: the

enr in a German. camp, marred Hera was based again only by the false romanticism of a new youth and

D{ Noel Coward vigour in the cinema, the sense

original one of the strands of its plot. which by the faithful reflection of colour in movement becom

Even where the tradition of English mirtin-class, sub-

of Ing at last an essential part of

documentary realism was strong, urban life, was to startis the the British film began to strike war. The oudlence, which fm narrativa.

Continent-apt to be quote Shakes-peare's "The quality integrated, has split up again in-years before we suw anything on durion the war was somehow

We were to wait a couple of

shade out in new directions. You can- patranising about the British not make a "Western" In Bri- of mercy is not strained,

cinema-into astonished respect. ain; there is no basis for it, even might well pay the some of the each of whom has to be cajoled. creative

multitude of individuals, the English screen to equal the At the Cannes Film Festival of if the climate were to allow it.

excitement of Royer charm.

"Henry 1946,

"Brief Encounter" was But "The Overlanders," a story This, then, was the situation, V." As well as

But the escape from the war being the highly of the British im

voted the best flm by the in- of a spectacular cattle trek, made toward the theme entertaining tole

had begun; At .first ternational of a sponging end of the war, and just after it. nesitantly, gradually with fresh

critics always. In Australia by a British docu- man of letters and a low-born The native cinema had errtainly, confidence, British producers and

captious audience. English girl whit dad themselves taken on a new lease of life un-uirectors began to explore.

British films

mentary director Harry Watt, na the inter- took the pictorial excitement of under the same manor root, the der war conditions,

Ornational map.

the "Western," the splendid But was course, the lessons in realism→→→ nne 118

"Brief a guest and the other as merely

Encounter" carried kind of accident, as the solid background, the small the tradition

on rhythm of man and horse mov- chamber maid, "Cluny Brown" when, in the 1911-1918 war, cer- shades of character-which had had been established during the kind of historical truth.

of realiam offers a delightful satire on the tain pets won a reputation in

which ng against landscape, and add- hierarchy

ween learnt in the wor were not war. English Servants' Hall.

of the time-honoured excess of

Audiences outside Britain their talents beenuse orgotten.

Really, I think it this new in the Dominions, on the Con- freedom of description and in- they had written what everybody Young talents which had exertinent, even in America, though vention which marks the latest The Alm can do this far more felt? Would the life ga on? elsed themselves in the war be- effectively than the book. Sy- Wau the

here, perhaps, only a minority stage of development of the Bri- talent which had gan to feel their strength. David audience-begs in look for solld tish films. It would be absurd to come out of the war an en. Lean, for instance, and Ronalu character and during talent, or the epemeral Neame, who

d Background cinim for the British cinema that hat worked with in British films. exprection of h'ood?

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Noel Coward on the making oi

it is all on this same high level. even the English themselves by Probably the fret Alm to starile

it bns lapses into the novelcite and worse. become a vehicle for the serious But at its best it has Its imagination was Laurener Olivier's version of "Henry V.";

creative imagination. The war was not over when this Shakespenrenn spectacle ระ

As he remarks lu one part of! *xercises his tongue-in-cheek, which are part of the amou

thenes it

to

One to a

sunvity on high and low allice of the flim, "I am the character of! At one stage he is caused my home," and indeed he is. At seems incredible that such a man could have lived a whole lifetime without one or other of the members of his family having benten him death with his nw rm. others one feels very much the same barely cynleni awe and re- spect in which his wife and sons. hold him.

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Mother Irene Dunne) gives another sterling perfarmutic Though naturally overshadowed by the completely dominant Mr. Day she manages never to be quite blanker off by his goings-rette, the butler (Ernest Cossart) und Mrs. Maile, the housekeeper (Sarn Allgood) are wonderful to behold as they rule "belowstairs" with a pompous despotism which far exceeds anything in the at- (Continued in nent col.)

Alany will be happy to see the flutterings of Zazu Pitts as she enos her way through the small but beautifully-played part of Cousin Cusa

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A feature of this film, as with mest of Lubitsch's productions,, is unqualified excellence of the playing of the minor roles. They are all good, but one which is really outstanding is Richard Haydn's portrayal of Mr. Wilson, the chemist who

plans his lif meticulously and presents pul- verlsing platitudes to his listen- ers in quite the smuggest nasa

tones ever heard on the screen.

aenau

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And in Britain itself audiences To Which We Serve"; these two hegan to turn away from the ro- were to become un Independent manticised platitudes which had cam--though they were still to contented them or years; they

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