ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT
(M.G.M ) ‘| HE Brothers were the Shores of Mas-sachusetts-no kin to Dinah, of course; no°kin either to the Shores of Tripoli, though they were apparently qalmost.as far-flung. One by one they sailed out "of New Bedford, ‘stouthearted blue-water whaling skippers; setting their courses south and west; and one by one they failed to return. Until only young Joel Shore (Robert Taylor) was left-and if he had just settled down and joined the longshoremen’s union the saving in manhours to the filmgoing public would have been incalculable. But though he got married, like the tenth little nigger boy, young Joel couldn’t help wondering what
had happened to the last of his brothers (the one with the Stewart Granger profile). He had disappeared from the barque Nathan Ross. while she rode peacefully at anchor in the Gilberts, and in the waterfront pubs of New Bedford it was being suggested that maybe the brothers weren’t all as valiant as they were made out to be. With the family honour thus at stake, Joel sets sail for the Gilberts, and he has barely anchored there before Big Brother shins up over the side, as large as life and twice as Technicolored. He spins a long and lurid yarn (in flashback) about a priceless haul of pearls he lost overboard in a distant lagoon. When young Joel refuses to take his ship to recover them, he incites the crew to mutiny, and the film ends in a welter of mayhem which will leave most filmgoers positively limp with indifference. As entertainment, the brothers are a complete write-off. So far as a reputation for valour goes, anyone who sits through their saga has staked a fair claim to it. ‘
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 27
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287ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 27
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