... seductive widow from England who takes up with Lisbon taxi-driver Daniel Gelin. Shrewdly amusing study by Trevor Howard (speaking slow French with an execrable accent) of a Scotland Yard detective patiently hunting down a murderer. Fascinating shots of ...

... produced a film that is blessedly free from tricks, effects and any form of self-consciousness. They asked Richard Burton to speak a commentary that wouldn't sound like a commentary. When Burton heard how the film was being made he did it, too, for the ...

... Shirer. (Robert Hale 12s. 6d.) The proper study The proper study of mankind may still be man all right, but, fictionally speaking, I suggest that it is now not man in conflict with himself (how is Tom managing his schizophrenia or man in relation to his ...

... a matter for debate. We have been used either to noisy Macbeths or to actors who treat the part as an exercise in verse- speaking. Olivier is at once warrior and haunted unconscious poet nobody in our day has probed Macbeth so deeply. The opening, in ...

... had volatility (Peter, one fancies, possibly more than Ivan), and they were to develop a vast resourcefulness. They could speak six languages and could handle horses. They were by instinct drawn to luxury cars not, perhaps, the best aid to making or selling ...

... stage speech since I ventured myself to say a few words from a platform, and was asked by a dear soul in the front row to Speak Up. Speak up Me I had hoped I was bawling my head off. The matter is in my mind this week. I was at a play not long ago in which ...

... Birmingham Kepcw} This is a Richard unaffected, for one, by the Montague reading of the conscious artist in sorrow. Jack May speaks with 3 beautiful lucidity, and Douglas Seale shows again that, in this matter of producing the Shakespearean histories, he ...