![]() ![]() Ruby: “Isn’t that just like men? They like to have three of everything. Here she is discussing Lily’s first, bigamous husband: Brenda Bruce, as best friend Ruby, is splendid too, and gets many of the best lines. Patricia Roc, a site favorite, is magnificent here, and very nearly carries off the abrupt transformation of Lily’s character. But, if you can accept this oddity-or even, as I found, if you can’t- When the Bough Breaks pulls all the right strings.īrenda Bruce as Ruby with Patricia Roc as Lily. Similarly, the supposedly level-headed Bill bizarrely goes along with her plan. This very competent little weepie skates not quite convincingly past the plot turn that sees the hitherto highly intelligent Lily commit herself to such a dimwitted action-one that any fool could see would almost certainly end in misery if not tragedy for all. When they prove to have difficulty in starting a family, she realizes she and the Normans never signed legal adoption papers for Jimmy, so now she can claim her boy back. Patricia Roc as Lily Gardner/Bates, getting the bad news about her marital status.Įight years later, though, she meets Streatham shopkeeper Bill Collins (Owen) at a holiday camp, and finally agrees to marry him. Eventually it all gets too much for Lily and she allows Frances and Frances’s husband Robert (Holt) to adopt the lad. During the day she leaves Jimmy at a childcare center, where he’s tended by rich Frances Norman (John). There she’s befriended by scent-counter colleague Ruby Chapman (Bruce). She decides to go it alone, reverting to her maiden name of Lily Bates, forswearing men and getting a job at a department store. ![]() Lily Gardner (Roc), recovering in hospital after the birth of her first child, Jimmy, receives the unwelcome news that her husband is a bigamist-legally Jimmy has been born out of wedlock. Box Scr: Peter Rogers Story: Moie Charles, Herbert Victor Cine: Bryan Langley Cast: Patricia Roc, Rosamund John, Bill Owen, Brenda Bruce, Patrick Holt, Leslie Dwyer, Cavan Malone, Torin Thatcher, Catherine Lacey, Edith Sharpe, Muriel George, Jane Hylton, Noel Howlett, Sonia Holm. And, for now anyway, that’s all I have to say about this one.UK / 78 minutes / bw / Sydney Box, Gainsborough, GFD, Rank Dir: Lawrence Huntington Pr: Betty E. The Kate Beckinsale film, loosely about the historical mistreatment of the mentally ill, grossed $475k on Friday for a likely $1.1m opening weekend. D.J Caruso’s The Disappointments Room, a $15 million-budgeted horror movie about a young couple moving into a new house to help cope with the death of their young daughter, barely made a ripple on its 1,554 screens. Relativity (via Rogue Pictures) released their first movie since declaring Bankruptcy last year. Now if Blair Witch underwhelms next week and then Deepwater Horizon in three weeks, that’s a very different conversation, but we’ll cross that forest when we come to it. Yes, I’m sure Lionsgate would rather have stories about how their small-ish acquisitions made a lot of money as opposed to me explaining why said release won’t hurt them that badly, but blink-and-you-miss-them releases like this won’t hurt them too badly. So yeah, the film only made $700,000 on Friday for a likely $2.3m debut weekend, but it’s hard to get too worked up over this one. The $13.5 million-budgeted adventure has already earned $20m overseas, and Lionsgate’s spend and exposure on this acquisition was minuscule. ![]() Lions Gate Entertainment’s The Wild Life is an animated picture from Belgium which retells the Robinson Crusoe story from the point-of-view of the animals. ![]() The other two openers didn’t make much noise at all. ![]()
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