MISS SADIE THOMPSON
(Columbia) . "HAVE never quite got over my disappointment at missing the orgy of sin which Joan Crawford seemed to promise from éyery hoarding when she appeared (how many years ago?) in Somerset Maugham’s Rain, and now that I have seen Rita Hayworth in the same part I feel even more curious about Miss Crawford-and about Gloria Swanson before her. I haven't read the Maugham original, but as a woman with a past whom a mission leader named Davidson rescues, and rapes, Sadie Thompson should, I feel, be a part calling for a certain amount’ of genuine emotion, Miss Hayworth, who might be quite good fun throwing all this energy into a different sort of story, plays it most of the way at musical comedy level; and -the scenes, particularly. the climactic one, where José Ferrer, as Davidson, manages faintly to suggest that there’s more to it than that, are so brief. that they never come near establishing a serious tone. I don’t blame Miss Hayworth entirely, either. I’ve a feeling that, even without her, the South Sea setting, the Marines and the thou-
sands of feet of colour film waiting to be spoiled (not that all of it is), would have gone to everyone's head.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 21
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208MISS SADIE THOMPSON New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 21
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