THE EXILE
(Universal-Fairbanks ) HE EXILE, young Mr. Fairbanks’ first venture as an independent producer, is an idyll with about 9,000 feet of clay, or to be precise, of papiermaché. Properly staged, filmed in technicolour, and competently directed, it might have passed muster as a harmless burlesque of history, with young Charles II, graceful but muscular, holding together his tattered Government-in-exile by the force of his personality and the fresh charm of his dentition. As it stands, it is drab both in treatment and in photography. The only entertaining sequence develops when Col. Ingram, the sinister chief of Cromwell’s Gestapo, tracks Charles to the tulip-ranch of his Dutch inamorata. There the disguised monarch, anticipating the old when-did-I-last-see-your-father gambit, declares himself and all join in a strenuous bout of P.T. and noisy sword-play. But in spite of this slight relief I thought the film, like Charles himself, was an unconscionable time in ending.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 465, 21 May 1948, Page 33
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151THE EXILE New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 465, 21 May 1948, Page 33
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