THE WOMAN FOR JOE
(Rank-Group Films-VistaVision) F The Woman for Joe fulfilled its promise it would be a very good film. It starts well with its impression of fairground life, and the more im-
portant characters are interestingespecially the midget, George Wilson (Jimmy Karoubi), whom a moneyloving showman, Joe Harrap (George Baker), buys to boost the flagging fortunes of his fair. The story is really about George, a likeable, gentle little fellow, very well played by Mr. Karoubi, who falls in love with a full-sized woman (Diane Cilento), and-understandably, for Miss Cilento is very beautiful and charming-wants to marry her. As far as it goes in this direction the film is not badly done. Then it loses its grip as it works up (or down) to a conventional climax in which the thoroughly disagreeable Mr. Harrap (old greenback fingers) and the girl discover they’re in love; and the intended pathos of the ending as it affects George is almost lost because, one imagines, the director (George More O’Ferrall) has lost his voice or the film editor his scissors. And that is a great pity.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 885, 20 July 1956, Page 21
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184THE WOMAN FOR JOE New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 885, 20 July 1956, Page 21
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