European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reims is Mark Walter Pidgeon stays up All night to Comfort Effie Janet Leigh when they receive news of a Mutual Friend s death i i a if a Jerker designed to produce Crocodile tears and embarrassment f Winter comes a fellow named Percy Bysshe Shelley once asked can Spring be far behind the answer in relation to the film which derives its name from this quotation is brother Spring is further off than you might think. No doubt Shelley in his grave rues the Day he spoke those words. This super sickly sentimental metro Goldwyn Mayer production induces Crocodile tears from beginning to end. Hardly a moment of pathos creeps through the bathos and there is no moment at All when Pandro s. Burman s production does not make sensitive film goers squirm in their chairs. The Story is set in the Semi wartime England of 1939 with its Gas masks and Home  but if this Sticky world of pseudo sentiment was Ever eng land the British will probably be very surprised to hear it. It is not so much the Petty wrangling and suspicion of the Village yokels against an outsider who comes to live among them which is surprising in essence the attitude is fairly authentic. But it has been Mel dramatized out of All proportion to an already Slapdash plot and situation. Under the circumstances Walter Pidgeon and Deborah Kerr fight a losing Battle in the leading roles. 20 i Mark hands himself out of step with the villagers of Penny Green inthe England of 1939. Although he suffers from a weak heart and can t join the army he is criticized by his fellow workers for staying Home. Weekend March 27, 1948 a