Orful, Orson!
ATTEMPTS to cash in on previous successes in the entertainment field have usually a taint of commercialism about them, but Orson Welles’s Lives of Harry Lime is bare-faced exploitation. There is something horribly zombie-like about the amateurishly-exhumed figure of Harry Lime-he has even less humanity than his film progenitor, and none of his charm, revealing himself as an improbable cross between Superboy and one of James Hadley Chase's skirtstruck minor thugs. And the frayed banners of Anton Karas’s zither music used with such calculated intent to recapture that earlier mood of the film, more often induce merely the squirming sensation engendered by tactless reminders of a
dead love.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 663, 21 March 1952, Page 11
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112Orful, Orson! New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 663, 21 March 1952, Page 11
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