THE PASSING STRANGER
(Harlequin) DIANE CILENTO is the draw card in The Passing Stranger, a rather attractive minor British drama. As Jill, who runs a small roadside eating house
with her sister, Miss Cilento finds herself sheltering, and presently in love with, an American Army deserter named Chick (Lee Patterson), who is in trouble with the British police because he has got involved with gun-runners. Also in the picture is a truck-driver (Duncan Lamont) who wants to marry Jill himself. The climax follows Chick’s decision to join the gang in one last job to earn the money to flee the country with Jill; and, ‘cut to a smart pace, the last part of the film has plenty of tension. Bits of the story are not completely credible, but the players do well with the material they’re given, and with adequate direction by John, Arnold and some fine camerawork by Walter Lassally, The Passing Stranger, once well away, never fails to hold the interest. The music also, by Ken Sykora, is just right, and underlines a certain agreeable lyric quality in parts of the film.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 16
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184THE PASSING STRANGER New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 16
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