... the daughter who falls in love with a decent Jamaican youth are not stage types but real working-class men and women. They speak a language that we hear more often off the stage than on, and their reactions to circumstance, whether irrational or sensible ...

... put so much as a timid toe into the world where her innocent, plucky heroine strays. I can't guess what lay readers, so to speak, will make of it, but at all events it is a sharp and lethal little counterblast to all those noble, modest, blood-sweat-and-tears ...

... a little better taste for there is a sort of panto mime garishness about the piece, a tuppence- Technicolored look, so to speak. Mr. Bernard Miles is nice and earthy and liss Jessie Matthews plump and cosy as the lonest woodman and his wife who wish for ...

... a decision that we know must shatter the family. This is a play to respect because Ted Willis, its author, lets its people speak through him without any attempt to preach. Joan Miller, we know, can strike home any emotional scene, and she has John Slater ...

... ignored plays, often competent in them selves, that needed an actor's genius,, or idiosyn crasy, to develop them. So I cannot speak of The Party and Charles Laughton's great perform ance in it. The main categories, it seems to me, should be new and serious ...

... are Swedish. Everyone knows Ingrid, of course, and all of us are delighted to welcome this lovely actress back to English-speaking films. In the past year she has starred with Cary Grant in the sparkling comedy Indiscreet, and with Curt Jurgens and Robert ...