Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 25, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free press Friday november 25. 1949 quartet the Long list of distinguished films which Britain has sent it Vite tonic it Edmund a nut a Clarh Lassie of Home Veronica for would the sainted Sisters general us we can now add quartet which opened at the Odeon theatre today. Four of w. Somer set maugham s Short stories have been transferred to the screen with the impel ability and urbane insight of their creator preserved to a remarkable degree. Or. Maugham is not the one to use exclamation Marks and under notice to parents All moving picture shown in Manitoba Are classified by Manitoba censor Board As follows adult Mem nor suitable for juveh41le entertainment general Mim suitable for family entertainment ale Clawis Icahn is published to help you to select films which a Fol provide suitable entertainment for your children. Manitoba Board of moving picture censors Winnipeg theatres scoring As a Means of expressing his ideas and the film is faithful to this method. The narrative is uncluttered the characterizations tick As neatly As a 21-jewelled watch and the performances of a number of. Britain s finest actors Are fully in. Keeping with the lofty level of the whole enter prise. The four tales Are the facts of life in which a Callow youth Dis regards his father s precepts with amusing results the alien Corn wherein a mus ical son of an up-1 per class family refuses to com Promise i to anything lower than first rate the Kite detail ing the ugliness of family relationships w. Somerset maugham Victor mature Lucil Leball u2abeth Scott Sonny tins adult heart stirring epic adventure in the desert with Bruce Bennett Naish and the colonel s lady a scathingly funny Story o a conventional country Squire who finds himself confronted with the flagrant publicity surrounding the publication or his Dove of a wife s Long narrative poem. All of these stories stand on their own feet very Well but the last named is the Best of All. Like the other three it makes its Points without unnecessary padding it gives the Spectator credit Tor imagination and Rood taste and it is beautifully directed. However it has a sureness of technique and a stronger ending. As a matter of fact one of the manifold assets of the film is that All the stories improve on c i o i e r acquaintanceship. Meanings which have struck you As being obscure when you see them take on and decl Cir Ity when you think of them. The facts life is a trifle but a delicately qui Kish one nevertheless. A father sends his son to a Tennis tournament at Monte Carlo with the stipulation that he is not to Gamble is not to lend Money and is to have nothing to j do with women. Before the Story i is Over he has done All three and is none the worse for it. Jack Walling is naively right As the boy and Mai Zetterlind re creates a Light morale lady with delicately amusing perception. The ending says worlds your first reaction to the alien Corn will be one of perplexity but when you think it out the very simplicity of the ending says worlds about the innate integrity of a person s Pursuit of perfection in social set up which has not the slightest understanding of any thing an Inch beyond its own nose. Dirk bogarde As the boy is a Fine Young actor but the most Reward ing performance is the Brief appearance of Francoise Rosay As a celebrated pianist who is called in to give a life or deals verdict on his ability. The impassive face of mine. Rosay conveys a great i Deal More than kaleidoscopic a sessions of most other actresses. The Kite Biles deeper As a social commentary than of the other three. In a savagely realistic depiction of the smallness of human relations at close quarters it shows a son whose marriage is wrecked because his wife won t let him indulge his Pas time of flying a Kite on the commons on saturday after noon. The Kite symbolizes the childish tie of the son to his domineering unpleasant Mother superbly played by her Mione Baddeley. George Cole scores As Herbert the boy. _ Cecil Parker s depiction of a rigidly pompous country Squire Sparks the colonel s lady to the brightest spot of the whole Bill or. Maugham has lavished some of his most effectively scathing plot manipulation on the Story of the col Onel who is at first indifferent when his wife s poems Are published then alternately alarmed and jealous As the Waves of publicity begin to spread. Or. Parker s performance is full adult Marion tache phone 203 754 held Over cd Corral 2 Coni pole evening shows doors open feature at , 9.00 specs adj kii1ihks sat. Matinee come ka11i.v, dolts of Kex 11.45 the biscuit eater i Lus 5 carloads Nuas Hun no t of hrs Kiu Welles the Ladr from Shanghai Lucille Hodiak two smart Reol a fault Victor fury at Furnace Creek in Sll i a a Lull held Over horse Williams the John Wayne rougher tougher More romantic than Ever fighting kentuckian Kia us std Oliver hair i wit and the essentially unimaginative dullness of the Man ii excellently detailed. Nora Swinburne brings just the right note to the wife and Linden travers is a highly satisfactory Light o love. Or. Maugham introduces the four stories himself and the ease with which the movie flows from one Story to another is just one of the manifold Points in its favor. See quartet by All Means. 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