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R CAPRICORNA Transatlantic picture, released bvWarner Bro* p ?•*lt;■* jlt;*ed and directeddv Alfred Hitcher* «b*-Tames Bridie Now playing at the Par*.mount treaterLady Henrietta Ingrid BergmanSam ........ . , Joseph GottenCbarlM Michael WUdlrgLady Henrietta Fluskv nee Lady Henrietta Conssdine, is a lush (capacity apparently unlimited, consumption figures not available). She married the stable groom, Sam. in Ireland and her brother tracks them down, starts to shoot her. and -she •hoots him dead Sam takes the biame, gets seven year? in the Australian penal colony (It is the year 18-20-something!. She follows Sam to Australia. Hlt;' serves his time, becomes a successful business man, but Ladv Henrietta has become adrunk.There is a ho.,ekeepe plaved by Margaret Leighton, who is n love with Sam and who keeps feeding Henrietta the stuff, until Hattie, as she is called, is a sorry thing and the housekeeper has just about taken over. Then, along comes Michael Wilding, cousin of the incoming governor His sister andHattie were friends inlrelan/iHefalls for her and tries to bring her out of It. And the housekeeperstarts putting things into Sam’sear.Alfred Hitchcock has directed with a heavy hand, and Joseph Cot-ten must have got the character he was playing confused with one of; the stone faces on Mt. Rushmore Bergmar. emotes all over the place until it gets monotomous. The picture is almost two hours long and, somehow, it doesn’t seem to this reviewer to take that much tellingMichael Wilding, a Britisher, If the best of the cast.More tiresome than otherwise,but not without some value.The management of the State Theater announced Monday the! there would be no change of program. as previously announced. Tuesday. Roseanna McCoy'' willbe held over through Wedesday,;making wav Thursday for “Everybody Does It.’’ “Song of Surrender, scheduled for Tuesday, ha* been cancelled.
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Austin American
Austin, Texas, US
Tue, Nov 22, 1949
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