Cinema: A Bad Good Deed

Guns of Darkness. Dreary is the word for Tom and Claire. The one (David Niven) is a mother's boy who wants everything his own way, and when he can't have it he sulks and drinks and insults everybody in sight. The other (Leslie Caron) is a loyal, long-suffering, sweet little wife who is pitied by everybody—especially herself. Dreary little people in a dreary little manana republic; sick of the heat, sick of the natives, sick of themselves; each blaming the other for the mess they are in, both too weak and lazy to clean...

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