BRIGHT VICTORY
(Universal-International) HE first part of Bright Victory is a sound March-of-Time style treatmerit of the return of a blinded serviceman (Arthur Kennedy) to the United States, and of his re-education in the Army’s Valley Forge Hospital. Kennedy is a good actor and there was conviction in his portrayal of that crucial moment in which the blinded man realises that his darkness is permanent. But. once away from Valley Forge, with all its neat routines, its institutional heartiness, and its impressive efficiency, the story slips and falters. The soldier’s. girl. flinches from the prospect of marriage with a blind man, but as luck (and Hollywood) will have it, there is a much prettier ‘girl (Peggy Dow) waiting to take her place. ._This-Miss Dow’s prettinessjarred a little on me. I don’t mean to suggest that a pretty girl is wasted on a blinded soldier. I was just depressed once again by the thought that Hollywood cannot cope with notions of love, compassion, and the gentler virtues except in terms of the cover-girl convention. Miss Dow was just too neat and tidy a solution. Admittedly, blindness is a difficult subject to handle, and the problem is to keep within bounds, but Bright Victory does not succeed very well in this, and in consequence suffers by comparison with some other "rehabilitation" films.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 660, 29 February 1952, Page 17
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220BRIGHT VICTORY New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 660, 29 February 1952, Page 17
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