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(20th Century-Fox) ‘ ‘THE worst ‘that can be said of this modernised version of John Galsworthy’s play is that the sentiment on which it is based now seems a little too unworldly to provide convincing motivation for the action. The idealistic Matt Denant (Rex Harrison) goes to prison for accidentally killing a policeman who is about to arrest a prostitute in Hyde Park. This appears such an_ injustice that no one is surprised when he is assisted, after escaping from Dartmoor, by the local squire’s daughter (Peggy Cummins); nor when she quickly falls in love with him. In some exciting sequences Harrison gets entangled in a fox-hunt, converts a motor-car, crawls through a swamp in the mist, takes off and crashes in an ‘aeroplane, and then gives himself up so as not to prejudice the position of the village parson whose church he is hiding in. Points which lift the film out of the rut are an almost flawless piece of casting (including William Hartnell as the police inspector), some solid, clean-cut acting by the principals, and a fine atmosphere of rural, moorland England.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 504, 18 February 1949, Page 33
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184ESCAPE New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 504, 18 February 1949, Page 33
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