Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:13 am Post subject: The Brothers (1947: David MacDonald)
The Brothers (1947: David MacDonald)
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A neglected minor masterpiece, The Brothers is a searing melodrama of good and evil, innocence and corruption, with a Scottish director and a largely Scottish cast. Patricia Roc plays an orphan from Glasgow who, in 1900, becomes the servant of a Skye crofter (Finlay Currie) and his sons (Duncan Macrae and Maxwell Reid), in a community where transgressors are sent bobbing out into the ocean, tied up with floats and a fish on their head, which will attract a seabird to dive from great height and pierce fish and skull together. This is a dark brew, with its macabre violence and raw sexual passion. Shot in ghostly greys, The Brothers uses its backdrop of sea and mountains to telling effect, building to a powerful climax.
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