ALWAYS A BRIDE
(Rank-Clarion) eee The Long, Long tellin for the uninhib laage: ear a Bride invites the eorifidential chuckle. It is not, one imagines, the kind of film which the morfalists would approve, since the most delightful and amusing people in it are a bunch of confidence tricksters (led by Ronald Squire and Marie Lohr) intent on making a fat living at the expetise of the idle rich on the Riviera, The story is astonishingly uneven in quality-some of the brightest ideas are only partially developed, while the thoroughly threadbare ones’ate followed remorselessly to thetr-foreseeable conclusions. But the cast is nimble and witty, the topsy-turvy motality of the wide boys produces its own ascorbic kind of humour (‘There's nothing I wouldh’t stoop to to regain my self-respect"), and the back-firing triple bluff which forms the climax supplies an appropriate finale.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 793, 1 October 1954, Page 17
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141ALWAYS A BRIDE New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 793, 1 October 1954, Page 17
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