Sight and sound: the film quarterly

CONTENTS: - news from London, Hollywood, Rome, Sweden and Germany - the history of the 'hero' in film - special: Robert Flaherty - star portraits: Wendy Hiller and Katharine Hepburn - interview with Robert Hamer - The current cinema: Le journal d'un curé de campagne; An American in Paris; The Man in the White Suit; Decision before Dawn; The tall target; Gerald McBoing-Booing; The Magic Garden; - Griffith and the silent film - revaluation of 'October' (Eisenstein) - Film and stage acting REVIEWS: - An American in Paris - The Man in the White Suit - Decision before Dawn - People will talk - Cyrano de Bergerac - The brave Bulls BOOK REVIEWS: - Charlie Chaplin, by Theodore Huff - The Little Fellow, by Peter Cotes and Thelma Niklaus COVER: Trevor Howard in Carol Reed's 'An Outcast of the Islands'

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