THE BLACK TENT
(Rank) G Cert. [F there’s anything more tedious to watch than a stiff-lipped, humourless Englishman doing his Duty no matter what, it’s a stiff-lipped, humourless Dutydoing Englishman making ,love. In The Black Tent we have both. "You know what’s happened, don’t you?" says Captain David Holland (Anthony Steel), minting a phrase as you might say, to Mabrouka (Anna Maria Sandri), a sheik’s daughter who has nursed him well in the North African campaign; and damme if it hasn’t happened to her, too: they’ve fallen in love. This and much else is discovered in flashback by Captain Holland’s brother (Donald Sinden) when he goes to Libya after the war to find out what happened to the captain. He finds the sheik (André Morell), the girl, and his brother’s heir, and striding heavy-footed about in his dutiful English way, putting temptation (an English county inheritance) in the way of those who are happy where they are, he nearly upsets the applecart. Actually, the idea here is quite interesting, and I'd have thought Brian Desmond Hurst had the ability to make an interesting film of it. The girl and the sheik are all right (if you can forgive her for falling in love with Captain Holland), and the séttings are fine. But the pace is slow and two Englishmen as solemn as the Holland Brothers are at least two too many.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 916, 1 March 1957, Page 15
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231THE BLACK TENT New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 916, 1 March 1957, Page 15
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