NINE BACHELORS
(Pathé Cinema)
HIS French film, with subtitles in English, provides sophisticated entertainment which, though scarcely firstclass, is on the whole agree-
able: a farce-comedy thoroughly cynical in outlook, mildly risqué in one or tw@ situations, but performed with a stronj sense of fun. The chief recommendatioxij™ however, is that the star is Sacha Guitry and that he has surrounded himself with a very competent collection of character players. As in his more famous film The Cheat, Guitry essays the role of a suave and not-unlikeable rascal. Taking advantage of a Government decree against foreigners resident in France, he here sets up a Home for Aged Bachelors, fills it quickly with vagrants, and then proceeds to farmer out the inmates to rich foreign women» who need French husbands to evade the decree. Since there are nine such inmates and the situation in each case is basically the same, it follows that the action is repetitious; but the performances are clever and the general effect is amusing (especially, I imagine, for those who know enough French to follow the dialogue closely).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 24
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181NINE BACHELORS New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 24
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