Nell Gwyn (British & Dominions), upon its arrival in the U. S. a year ago, was promptly banned by the Hays organization. Now released with a prolog and epilog containing what is meant to be its message, it turns out to be one of the more genteel specimens of British historical cinema, exhibiting England's pleasure-loving Charles II (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) as a calm sophisticate engaged in dignified adultery and his most celebrated mistress (Anna Neagle) as a good-tempered tavern jade who never goes further in vulgarity than sticking out her tongue at people she...
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