... THE British film version of L. A. G. Strong's novel The Brothers is something be tween a documentary and a melodrama: Man of crossed with one of the tougher French films of lust and vengeance. Technically, it is a very fine piece of work indeed, with beautiful photography of misty mountain and lonely loch, but not by any stretch of imagination could it be called soothing ...

... REVIEWED ON THIS PAGE. L. P. HARTLEY. THE ART OF THE FRENCH BOOK. Edited by Andrd Lejard. Introduction by Philip James. (Paul Elek £2 10s.) THE ROCK POOL. By Cyril Connolly. (Hamish Hamilton 8s. 6 d.) MRS. PALMER'S HONEY. By Fannie Cook. (Heinemann 8s. 6d.) FINAL CURTAIN. By Ngaio Marsh. (Collins 8s. 6 d.) THE ART OF THE FRENCH BOOK.-- Book production, though an enormous is also a ...

... , Michael Powell's new film at the Odeon, is such an enchanting bit of colour-work, so beautifully designed and matched, and so captivating to the eye, that nothing else matters in the first instance. It is in Technicolor, and I cannot remember any other work in which Technicolor has achieved the subtle blandishments of this picture. The scene is a wind-blown, long-neglected palace, high ...

... By C. A. Lejeune. I'LL BE YOURS, Deanna Durbin's new picture, opens with a wordless scene in a Pullman coach so fresh and ingenious that I fancied for a moment we were back in the good old days when a Durbin film was a delight from beginning to end. Of course, we weren't. Hope died when I found that the scene on the train had nothing to do with the subsequent story, and was simply introduced ...

... THE play is a regional comedy. Agreed; but don't go to the Duke of York's expecting to find some piece of rural folk-weave. Ivor Novello is the author, his region is the West End theatre, and his dialogue is the shop-talk of Shaftesbury Avenue. He has always been an expert at elaborating private jokes for the public. We Proudly Present happens to be a good joke, one that will please-- and ...

... By C. A. Leieune. IN PANIQUE, Julien Duvivier has again made one of the great pictures of the world, as he did in Poil de Carotte, Un Carnet de Bal, La Fin de Jour, and Pépé le Moko. Panique is not everyone's picture. It is very horrible. The last scene, in which a frenzied and hysterical mob closes in for the kill on a terrified quarry, is some thing almost unbearable to watch and ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF. L. P. HARTLEY. REVIEWED ON THIS PAGE. THE TRAVELLER'S EYE. By Dorothy Carrington. Pilot Press 15s.) ON SUCH A NIGHT. By Anthony Quayle. (Heinemann 7s. 6 d.) MISS PYM DISPOSES. By Josephine Tey. (Peter Davies 8s. 6d.) DEAD MAN MURDER. By Bernard Newman. Gollancz 8s. 6 d.) THE TRAVELLER'S EYE.-- As Miss Dorothy Carrington reminds us in her introduction, travel has become diffi ...