FOUR GIRLS IN TOWN
(U. niversal. International) G Cert. HOUGH Four Girls in Town takes a little time to marshal its resources -Gia Scala, Elsa Martinelli, Marianne Cook, and Julie Adams-and though Jack Sher, who wrote and directed the piece, has yesmanfully resisted the temptation to make it the nippy satire on Hollywood folkways that it could
and should have been (the script is littered with lost opportunities), I didn’t go home feeling that I had altogether wasted an evening. I can’t allow Mr Sher a great deal of the credit for that. His script had a few passable lines in it, but they were widely separated, and his one little visual joke was worn threadbare by repetition before the film ended. Nor did there seem to be any strongly personal touch in his work, beyond a determination to plug the message that all was for the best in the best of all Hollywood lots. But I was obliged to the casting department for the opportunity to meet Marianne Cook (née Koch). She has good looks and a demure grace (I found myself being- reminded of Claire Bloom), and a capacity for adding conviction and dignity to the commonplace which should stand her in good stead in Hollywood. Playing opposite her was Sydney Chaplin, and between them these two contrived -with minimum assistance from the script-a romantic interlude as tender and persuasive as it was unexpected. |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 30
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236FOUR GIRLS IN TOWN New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 30
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