MY COUSIN RACHEL
(20th Century-Fox) ]F you like the kind of femme fatale Daphne du Maurier writes about, and the kind of melodramatic-romantic story she embalms them in, then this (I'm sure) is the kind of picture you will like. So far as I personally am concerned you can have it and welcome. Here is a story of passionate infatuation and dark suspicion, of love turning to hate and back again, of questions that have no answers. It opens cheerily beneath a gibbet (occupied) at the crossroads on a lonely stretch of Cornish coast and the initial mood, with all its intimations of impending calamity, is well maintained. Cousin Rachel (Olivia de Havilland) is beautiful and a widow. Did she poison her husband? Her cousin (Richard Burton), former ward and heir of the dead man, believes she did and swears revenge. Then they meet and he falls abjectly and irrevocably in love. She comes to stay and he falls ill. Is_ she now poisoning him? Hatred boils up again. And so it goes on. Miss de H., I must admit is as lovely as ever she was, and Richard Burton has possibilities as a romantic actor, but I hate being hazed and I have little time for a story which deliberately bewilders, for bewilderment’s sake. ‘Rachel, my torment!" groans her unfortunate lover, in an agony of doubt and indecision. And, since this is apparently my week for vulgarity, ‘My oath!" say
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 739, 11 September 1953, Page 17
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241MY COUSIN RACHEL New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 739, 11 September 1953, Page 17
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