GEORDIE
(London Films-British Lion) G Cert. ep you afe in need of a relaxed evening-and if you’d just seen Othello and The Secret Game you may be-then Geordie will more than do. Geordie, which had something like a record season in the south and looks like holding up the accession of Richard III in Wellington, is a sentimental comedy about a small boy who was so small that he took a corre- | spondence course in muscle-building and be- | came a champion hammer-thrower. I thought | the juvenile opening of the film a little stiff- | the child characters were poorly handled-but | as the grown-up Geordie, Bill Travers makes | an engaging young Highlander. About seven | feet high, I should say, if the camera lie. Alastair Sim, as the local laird, and Miles | Malleson make notable contributions to the | fun, and the fact that Geordie hasn’t a good match temperament provides some nominal excitement. Gilliatt and Launder collaborated in the script (from) George Walker’s’ novel) and | achieved something a little in advance: of\ topicality by having the climax set at the | Melbourne Olympics. Launder directed. /
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 896, 5 October 1956, Page 15
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181GEORDIE New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 896, 5 October 1956, Page 15
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