THE BLACK SWAN
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‘\7ELL, that looks like the end of the Spanish Main," says Captain Sir Harry Morgan (Laird Cregar), seeing Captain Tyrone Power embracing Ye
Governor’s Lovely Lip-Sticked Daughter (Maureen O’Hara) in the lee of the mizzenmast in the last scene. And that’s a bit what it looked like to me also. Of course Sir Harry was possibly referring to the sea battle just ended, which had left the decks awash with blood and the scuppers choked with dead pirates. But having been brought up on Chums and the B.O.P., I’m afraid I tend to be a conservative when it comes to buccaneering. Mind you, if your standards are not quite so exacting, you may think this pretty good fun. It is certainly rather a relief to encounter a movie these days in which the blood is so obviously red ink and the battles are so obviously all sound and fury, signifying nothing. The technicolour is pretty, and so are Maureen O’Hara and Tyrone Power. I would cheerfully recommend this film to any normal youngster: it will certainly do him no harm. But we old chums, who sailed the Main under William S. Walkey, must draw the line at lipstick and at a hero who talks this way: "Look at you. Pretending to hate me, while your eyes are saying Don’t go away, go on loving me." The screen play is attributed to Ben Hecht. What the hecht is Ben doing, writing a line like that?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 251, 14 April 1944, Page 17
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250THE BLACK SWAN New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 251, 14 April 1944, Page 17
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