TIME OUT OF MIND
(Universal-International)
HIS film is a further illustration -of the dilemma of the clever director and capable cast who are handed a script unworthy of their
talents and expected to make a good film of it. They don’t, of course, succeed; but because they are talented they manage to give a certain distinction to a few isolated scenes. The director in this case is Robert Siodmak, who knows some neat tricks with lighting; and the best performances are those of Ella Raines and the English actress Phyllis Calvert. As the two most important women in the life of a budding composer, these stars convey some semblance of reaiity, which is rather more, however, than can be said of Robert Hutton in the role of Christopher Fortune, a young man who would rather write music than go to sea as his father has ordered. One of the women is "his possessive sister, the other is his childhood sweetheart, and between them they contrive that the young man’s creative genius shall eventually, and after various setbacks, be given to the world. But the result, in terms of music, is such that one cannot help thinking that the hero’s father, the martinet sea captain, may have been right after all.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 425, 15 August 1947, Page 31
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210TIME OUT OF MIND New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 425, 15 August 1947, Page 31
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