Cinema: Two Imports

A Tale of Five Women (Grand National; United Artists) was filmed in five European countries with five different actresses, directors, screenwriters and cameramen. The result does not quite add up to one good picture.

The film is based on a case of amnesia curiously contracted by an R.A.F. officer (Bonar Colleano) who takes off from a chandelier while celebrating in a Berlin bistro. Believed to be an American, he is shipped back to a U.S. rehabilitation center. There a pretty magazine editor (Barbara Kelly) finds a clue to his past in a photograph of a child and banknotes from five European countries,...

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