ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN

New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 20

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN

(Paramount) \VHEN Turks and Armenians can sit =, at the same table anything can happen, says Georgi (Jose Ferrér), a most engaging Géorgian recently atrived in the ‘United States, and as a glance through a book of American national pinta ee will show almost anything eats gee to a foreign immigtant to America. All the same you might find yourself thinking of the McCarran Act or the moré recent events in Mr. Chaplin’s life when the camera rests briefly en the New York skyline and the most éxpensive statue in the world, but if you can get over the feeling that this may beea bit of a boost for the land of the free you'll enjoy Anything Can Happen. I did, anyway. Mr. Ferrer is a delightful actor whose range of facial expression I envy and whose feeling for anyone who happens to be really Miss Kim Hunter I find very easy to understand. Having tried his hand at various jobs Mr. Ferrer chases Miss Hunter across the continent to Califorhia, where he decides to grow oranges and becotne a rich man. Of course a fair crowd of his compatriots

goes along in the car with him, and when the film ends there’s the promise of many gregarious and noisy goings on in the future. I imagine that this film, which George Seaton directed, gives a pretty fair picture of life among immigrants of this sort. in.America. There's, plenty of humouf-"6ne sterile with Mt.’ Ferrer and a ‘parcel of dough in a crowded bus on a hot day is very funny -there are some vety good performances from the supporting players, and in spite of the temptations of the story the film never really becomes oversentimental.