LISBON
(Republic-Herbert J. Yates) Y Cert. OME films get off to a bad start and never recover. Lisbon is one of them. In was apparently felt necessary to establish at the outset that Mr Claud Rains is a suave and ruthless villain, so he is discovered enticing birds to his bedroom windowsill with cakecrumbs. He then bats one with a tennis racquet and feeds it to his cat. This piece of gratuitous viciousness (alike in kind to the fried-egg incident in To Catch a Thief, but a good deal more revolting) induced a queasiness in me which the remainder of the film did little to dissipate. The film is, in fact, concerned with varying degrees of human frailty and. depravity-not for any sound dramatic reasons, but for the purposes of a cheap and pandering sensationalism, Only the photography deserved commendation, Portugal in Trucolor is delicately limpid and Naturama (which sounds awful) looks quite good.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 30
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