![]() ![]() ![]() When Victor Saville’s direction focuses on nature’s vengeance on man’s works, the handling is superb. And it’s nothing but a hokey have-your-cake-and-eat-it device to confer happiness on the other by retiring her to a religious order.Īlternately localed in primitive New Zealand and one of the French channel isles (circa 1840), pic details how Lana Turner, mistaken for her sister Donna Reed, makes the perilous sea voyage to the Antipodes to marry a deserter from the British navy. There’s the weak dramatic dodge, for one instance, of the wrong sister being married because she was mistakenly named by the suitor in a letter of proposal to her parents. Flaws in the novel, which verbiage may have made less perceptible, sore-thumb their way through the pic. ![]()
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