FLIGHT TO TANGIER
(Paramount) ‘LIGHT TO TANGIER is a mildly entertaining piece, though when I get down to motives I've really only the vaguest idea what it is all about. This isn’t completely contradictory, for having decided what side you’re on you can enjoy the big chase without asking questions. This chase takes the form of a flight, by car and on foot, not to but from Tangier, with Jack ‘Palance, Corinne Calvet and Joan Fontaine pursued by crooks and police. The best parts of this are very exciting, with the three principals, all giving a good account of themselves-there’s ample scope for Mr. Palance’s dynamic style, and, since a girl must keep cool some- ' how, there’s opportunity for Miss Calvet to display her lovely form, even when a fugitive in the desert. You may ask what Mr. Palance is going to do with two women, and I think he’s troubled by that himself before the end, even though Miss Calvet is a bit of a two-timer-slightly: schizo, I'd say. Unhappily for one of them he never has to make up his mind,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 21
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183FLIGHT TO TANGIER New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 21
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