Snow-bound
N The Snow Is a Shroud (1YC), R. J. Sellar attempted to inject new life into the tired theme of a group of people isolated from civilisation by an "act of God." This time the snowbound house (how many bad movies has this inspired!) located in a vague future England, contained a professor, the militant enemy of a new crypto-Fascist party, his wife and desperately-ill daughter. On them descends, from a crashed plane, Maximilien Smith, the would-be "Leader" and his deputy, an ex-surgeon, frantic to reach London to seize power. Clash of wills, stern resistance of the professor, change of heart in the surgeon, life-saving operation, collapse of revolt in the absence of the "Leader," platitudes all round. The BBC slickness, and some touches of humour, made it undemanding diversion, but the most expert playing could not disguise the fact that the script was merely a combination of several well-worn novelettish formulas. It always seemed to be about to say something, but in the end said nothing-except, perhaps, that if you want to start a Fascist revolt, you must first make sure that you do not get snowed in with a liberal professor.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 787, 20 August 1954, Page 10
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194Snow-bound New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 787, 20 August 1954, Page 10
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