TALL HEADLINES
(Grand National) 7O0U don’t really need to be miserable to sit through Tall Headlines, but I should imagine that it helps. The film has the advantage of good players -André Morell, Mai Zetterling and Michael Denison are all more than competent, and there is no one who can better convey mute agony of soul than Flora Robson. But the theme-the tragedy of a family who have lost a son on the scaffold-is too profound for the routine treatment given it here. And I must protest, too, at the arbitrary (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) elimination of the most engaging character merely to round off the action. Even in films a deadline shouldn’t be taken so literally.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 785, 6 August 1954, Page 20
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121TALL HEADLINES New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 785, 6 August 1954, Page 20
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