Carol Reed was “a passable journeyman who could sometimes push a story along.” So Jan — After Hitchcock left to work for Selznick, Carol Reed was the best director in England, Carol Reed was “a passable journeyman who could sometimes push a story along.” So sayeth Christopher Byron in The Sunday Times of London, referred to earlier. Jan — After Hitchcock left to work for Selznick, Carol Reed was the best director in England, and made some excellent movies before he went to war — “Midshipman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-gt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSunday Times of London, referred to earlier<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>.<\/I> <\/P>
\n
\nand made some excellent movies before he went to war —
\n<\/FONT><\/STRONG>“Night Train to
\nMunich”<\/B><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A> — clever entertainment, very watchable and pleasing
\ntoday. But in ’46 he became a serious man.
\nMason as a dying Irish revolutionary looking for salvation in a heartless nightmare city, is a great
\nfilm. Then comes his first collaboration with Greene, “The
\nFallen Idol,”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> another bleak tale of disillusion. Sure, he’s spellbound by the
\ndark allure of Welles in “The Third Man”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>; but no
\njourneyman could have made those movies, or
\nMan Between”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> (Mason again). In the ’50s, Reed became a lost man himself,
\ncaught between big Hollywood assignments like
\nBut even “Oliver!,”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> Dickens travesty that
\nit is, has marvelous moments, and a great Bill Sykes (played by his nephew Oliver Reed). So he
\ncan’t be dismissed as a hack. My calling, after all, is to rescue and celebrate the
\nneglected.
— Mr. Cheer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"