VENETIAN BIRD
(Rank-Betty Box) VENETIAN BIRD disappoints, not noisily like Stalag 17, but in a genteel Britannic fashion. This could, one feels, have been a passable thriller if only someone had worked harder, with colder wet towels round the head, to tidy. up the story, prune some of the verbiage ("Remember that I picked you out of the gutter, gave you a name," etc.),. and provide more plausible, or more clear-cut motives for the various protagonists. The photography is good, even if at times a little self-conscious-we get the Piazza San Marco and its pigeons from almost all angles, though as Thurber once said, no one can play down a scene like a pigeon. Richard Todd, somewhat ill at ease, appears as a visiting private detective who > is framed for the assassination of a popular politico, and (in case you have developed a sudden interest in her) Eva Bartok is also among those present.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 751, 4 December 1953, Page 16
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154VENETIAN BIRD New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 751, 4 December 1953, Page 16
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