Die schwarze Füchsin (1950)
24KDie schwarze Füchsin: Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. With Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Sybil Thorndike. A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman.
“Somehow this film was made without the incessant tinkering for which David O. Selznick was notoriously famous, presumably because he had allowed his wife, Jennifer Jones, to travel to Great Britain and work her magic untrammelled by his day-to-day presence on the set and in the screening room as rushes were viewed. By all reports, however, he was so horrified by what Powell and Pressburger had wrought that what we on this side of the Atlantic were allowed to view bears only a faint resemblance to the intentions of those English artists,u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt has been years since I saw, on a television broadcast, a no doubt truncated and heavily reedited version under its U.S. title, u0026quot;The Wild Heartu0026quot; but, as I had before, I was amazed at the u0026quot;Archersu0026quot; beautiful, almost florid, use of Technicolor and their apparently reckless disregard for the expectations of an audience weaned on American pablum and the more refined output of their English peers of the cinema.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMiss Jones is vibrantly beautiful and endlessly fascinating as she plays Hazel Woodus and it goes without saying that her support from a memorable cast of carefully chosen players, professional and, I would guess, amateur is of an order that one can always confidently expect from the British both on stage and on screen. Itu0026#39;s wishful thinking, at this late date, I suppose but a VHS or DVD version, available to us here in the U.S., would be a remarkable addition to a movie-loveru0026#39;s library.”
