Film Reviews

tragedy upon which we should necessarily dwell. As portrayed in The Search, the story of the little Czech boy who like many other children is separated from his mother while in a concentration camp, then branded by the Nazis and later taken to an U.N.R.R.A. centre, is tremendously moving. The ensuing scenes of the terrified child running away from what he thinks is a death van, the mother's search for her lost child, the boy's growing confidence in the American soldier, are all unforgettable. Unfortunately, there is never any beauty on which the eye can rest. We have two scenes by the river, but each time it is only the background for sad action or theme. Some shots of the children are beautiful, but it is a thin beauty. Their strained anxious faces peer out on ruins. The acting of the amateurs and professionals is good. The latter are well represented by Montgomery Clift and Aline MacMahan. But sometimes I felt they were showing us a little too