Everlasting Innocents
INCE they first created the parts of Woolcott and Spencer in the film The. Lady Vanishes, many yeats ago, Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford have become so identified with these two characters that their general acting ability has often been overlooked. In their current appearance in Rogues’ Gallery they run true to form. Still the everlasting innocents abroad, still’ trusting to every pretty face, the confidence-
man’s natural prey, they get themselves mixed up with a gang of French counterfeiters, and duly wind up (for a short period) behind bars. No doubt we're all growing old together, but it seems rather mild compared with the good old days when, dreaming of the next Test, they travelled those international trains where the pullmancars were booked solid by secret agents, and_ shot their way across the
frontier of Ruritania (or wherever it was that the Lady vanished). And it is’ sad to think that Basil Radford will never again be that simple but chival-
rous gentleman, Spencer. aoaidle
M.K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 10
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170Everlasting Innocents New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 10
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