STORMY WATERS
(M.G.M.-International) ‘THis unpretentious little French-made film-directed bz Jean Gremillon and starring Jean Gabin and Michele Morgan-is the story of a salvage-tug skipper who, though he is wedded to his work and to a pleasantly attractive wife, suddenly finds himself involved in an affair with another woman. It is from the outset a hopeless and pointless liaison-as such an affair would almost certainly be in reality--which damages the man in his own self-esteem, degrades him in the eyes of his crew, upsets the even tenor of his working life and brings him nothing in compensation. There is no attempt to glamourise the attachment, and the death of the wife simply caps a story of common human weakness with the equally commonplace tragedy of mortality. There could be no genuine happy ending. The virtue of Stormy Waters is, of course, its freedom from meretricious sentimentality. In the best sense, it is a film for adult audiences, The acting of the principals is impressive and the minor characters are all drawn in the round. But why play about with ship models in tanks?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 456, 19 March 1948, Page 23
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182STORMY WATERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 456, 19 March 1948, Page 23
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