FilmIndia (1946)

FILM INDIA January, 1946 t/ tk en Liiuei tin inteieitiny TUSSLE between tke TWO BROTHERS LORD KRISHNA and BALARAM ffictutijaiion of} tke Most Hilarious Incident from Mythology SUBHHDRR SHANTA APTE (Courtesy: S A. Concerns) ISHWARLAL YAKUB MEENAXI USHA MANTRI LATA SALVI JOG DAMUANNA and PREM ADIB PRODUCED & \A/ I N A Y A K DIRECTED BY: VV I IN rt I H N story: KH ANDEK AR For Rights Apply : INDIA FILM CIRCUIT LAMINGTON ROAD, BOMBAY. unites with Miss Carson. This ending should please most audiences. Lionel Barrymore, as Miss Garson's crippled, embittered father, has an unsympathetic part, but he plays it effectively. Greer becomes a servant in the home of Donald Crisp, despite the opposition of her father, who had been crippled in ah accident in Crisp's steel mill. She endears herself to Gladys Cooper, Crisp's wife, and to their four children, Gregory Peck, Marshall Thompson, Dan Duryea, and Marsha Hunt. Love comes to Greer and Peck, but she decides not to marry him because of her lowly position. But when Crisp learns of this, he brings the two together. Greer's joy, however, is saddened by a strike at the mill, encouraged by her father. When Crisp sends for strikebreakers, Greer, fearing bloodshed, arranges for a peace meeting between him and the strikers. But through a misunderstanding, the strikebreakers arrive in the midst of the meeting. Greer's father, enraged, incites the strikers and, in the ensuing battle, both he and Crisp are killed. Grief stricken, Greer withdraws from Peck's life. Then years later Peck, married to Jessica Tandy, a childhood sweetheart, leads an unhappy life because of .her constant nagging. When Peck's mother is stricken with a heart attack, she calls for Greer, much to the annoyance of Jessica, who feared that Peck's love for her might flame anew. After their mother's death, Duryea, Thompson, and Marsha vote to sell the steel mill, despite Peck's plea that it remain in the family. Greer, to whom Peck's mother had left her share of the mill, sides with Peck and saves the mill by inducing Marsha to change her vote. Incensed by Greer's action, Jessica insults her. Peck, an gered, breaks with his wife, and indicating a divorce, reunites with Greer. John Meehan and Sonya Levien wrote the screen play. Edwin H. Knopf produced it, and Tav Garnett directed it. The cast includes Pres'on Foster, Reginald Owen, John Warburton, Dean Stockwell and others. Unobjectionable morally. "KITTY" (Paramount, January 25; time, 103 min.) A fascinating period drama, one that will probably do big business, particularly in metropolitan centres, but it is certainly not entertainment for the family trade; for its story about a guttersnipe's rise from the London slums to a high position in court society, aided by the machinations of a disreputable young nobleman, is one of the most sordid ever presented on the screen. It is a curious mixture of trickery, thievery, murder, self-sacrifice, romance, and sex, in which none of the characters do anything commendable, vet it holds one's attention well, for it has been presented in a skillful manner and is aided considerably by good performances. It will probably appeal chiefly to sophisticated audiences. The period depicted is London in 1870, and the sets are extremely lavish: — Kitty (Paulette Goddard), an unkempt street waif, is employed by Sir Thomas Gainsborough ''Cecil Kellaway) to pose for a painting. Her portrait, titled "An Anonymous Lady." is purchased by the elderly Duke of Malmunster, who expresses a desire to meet its subiect. His remark is overheard by Sir Hugh Marcy (Ray Milland), an impoverished, unscrupulous nobleman, who had met Kitty in Gainsborough's studio. He promises the Duke