JEANNIE
(Gaumont-British)
HERE was a time when I had the impression that Michael Redgrave just stood around being Michael Redgrave
while the other people in his picture did most of the work. Then I changed my mind about him, but I would probably start to change it back again if I saw. many pictures like Jeannie. In this’he certainly does a little more than just stand around: he is once. seen to dry two dishes, and he also. smokes a pipe on various occasions, and once he hits a man, who thereupon falls down. Other notable things about this film are that ‘Wilfrid Lawson appears for what seems to be about three feet, and Barbara Mullen-she doesn’t need to be a pretty young lassie, but she could surely have been more attractive — is there all the time and that seems to be | about 10,000: feet. ; This Jeannie is a brash young Scots-woman-26 years old her passport says, and I’d hate to suggest that even passports can be faked in films-and her father leaves her his fortune of £297 and some odd shillings. With this, Jeannie has a fling all the way to Vienna, meets a Count who is at least genuine about taking all but the return ticket out of the £297, meets a young . Yorkshireman who sells a _ washingmachine and meets a blonde-and you see, there it is: not merely a triangle but a parallelogram. The brightest remark T heard was made by the blonde, who said she’d like to drink something non-intoxicating with something intoxicating in it. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 184, 31 December 1942, Page 17
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259JEANNIE New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 184, 31 December 1942, Page 17
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