SECRET INTERLUDE
(20th Century-Fox-CinemaScope) \V HERE Secret Interlude suggests the hidden and forbidden, The View trom Pompey’s Head-the American title, from Hamilton Basso’s bookfocuses'on a viewpoint and an attitude. Between the two Philip Dunne’s film takes ‘its stand. It is a secret interlude for, returning to the Deep South of his youth, a young lawyer (Richard Egan) finds that his old sweetheart (Dana Wynter) still loves him as much as ever, though both are married. Holding one another close, they talk of divorce. And how about the view from Pompey’s Head, the town where it all happens? That, as a matter of fact, is a greater obstacle than the marital ties. Call it ancestor worship if you like, but the old family home means more to Miss Wynter than anything else on earth, and since it has been bought back for her by her newly-rich, unloved husband (Cameron Mitchell, the most impressive of the players), she can’t have both it and Mr. Egan. If, in the event, we get rather more secret interlude than Southern viewpoint, the issue is not shirked at the end; and for good measure we get, in a secondary story, a look at an aspect of the colour question. This is a spraw!ling, uneven film. but it has good passages and gropes towards a certain integrity-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 869, 29 March 1956, Page 19
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220SECRET INTERLUDE New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 869, 29 March 1956, Page 19
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