THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE
(R.K.O.-Radio-Superscope) A Cert. "SNEAK" preview audience in *" Wellington which roared with derisive laughter at some of the best scenes in The Bold and the Brave illustrates an increasingly cynical attitude among filmgoers (discussed recently by Walter Lassally in Sight and Sound) to honest sentiment, gentleness and respect for finer feelings. Picked up by an Italian girl (Nicole Maurey) who has become a prostitute to escape from wartime poverty, a puritanical American sergeant (Don Taylor) is so innocent and "good" that the girl falls in love with him, The scenes between these two in which the fanatical puritan gradually succumbs must have been very difficult to play, and I’m not sure that on Mr. Taylor’s side they quite succeed. But they’re well written, and _ beautifully played by Miss Maurey. Personally I found the whole relationship quite moving. The scenes in which Preacheras his friends call him-tries to-fight temptation. are the ones the audience found so funny. Preacher is an interesting study-the sort of fellow we’ve all met, who is too busy fighting evil to have any Christian charity-and the film continues to explore his character: he leaves the girl in disgust when he finds she has been a prostitute, and rides his moral high horse on into some torrid battle scenes. I think we're meant to believe that he repents in the end. The other characters are Fairchild (Wendell Corey), who can’t bring himself to shoot at the enemy, and Dooley (Mickey Rooney), a comic extrovert who dreams of a better future for his family. In a richly comic interlude Dooley wins at craps a fortune, for which he’s going to pay dearly; and Fairchild finds in the heat of battle a solution to his unwillingness to kill. All this is no doubt meant to show how in one way or another men ‘grow up under fire. If so, I’m a sceptic. Nevertheless, if the film doesn’t always convince it is always interesting. Lewis R. Foster directed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 15
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331THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 15
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