Evening star., 1947-12-28
The Seasonal 10 Best
Raimu's 'Well.Digger,' His Farewell Work
Rated as Years Top
By Joy Cormody

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All Pictures
All that him that he shall make his list make
possible that represents one mans ta ana prepare
the strongest possible defense against the certain dissent which
follow. And so he comes to his 1o-best listing:
"The wel-Digger's Daughter
"Great Expectations"
3 Brief Encounter
Life Father"
"Crosshre"
a. odd Man Out"
T. Bachelor and the Bobby-soxer
Boomerang"
g. Monsieur
34th Street"
reasonably limited to pictures which have
calendar And while the
Of preference has its arbitrary aspects the Judgment
in favor deensby solid ground
Daughter its top rating for the reason
other picture of the season to capture
the whole ragi-comic theme funda
mentally light mans valiant fight Tor
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the Raimu spoke for at least
language could understand The subles were mere
the spectator who did speak French was
sure he had Pantomme more eloquent
A Classic Integrity.
Great Expectations intelligent masnihcaon of the excite
OF its place arms the Of the screen as
storytelling classics not have to be DESTROYED when
them merely because director thinks ne
improve them.
The romantic love threat
enng dramatic ruin until Brief Encounter
something tremendously moving out OF
quite emotional encounter between two conventional humans
picture removed doubts that the theme has 1e~
further possibilities
There is hardly any doubt With Father is the years
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Nations immediate past
It's opposite number the ugly and terrifying
conformity the conventions OF screen
meodama rise sufficiently above them to
make its message clear.
Man Hunt Handled Expertly.
handled with such powerful
odd Man Out another
contribution the best plays picture
spoke eloquence could violate
un his motives without destroying
his The terms OF l were
painfully those of Boomerang which added
able enough to punish the innocent
unless them with ceaseless vigilance.
Bobby represents the serious choice
of an utterly picture inspired by the feeling that
the u examination of universal type the ado
was the code of namely to make
the screen entertaining and the Bobbsoxer
entertaining
Monsieur verdoux highest awards
prize National of Review denoted this
ranking until they
the original productions and it
display dexerty Charles Chaplin At the
both pretenous and sefconscous
truth that discovered long before Chaplin
chose to give 1t utterance.
Fantasy for Closing.
Miracle on claim distinction
that it was the fantasy year with
that became cloying
Charm, tempting thought which to end this
might have at least modest influence on those who
pictures Torment Kiss of
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