“亚历山大·麦肯德里克”导演的《孤立无援1954》是一部非常好的电影,加上保罗·道格拉斯,Alex MacKenzie,James Copeland等演员的加盟,使这部原本平淡的剧本焕发出新的光彩,赢得了观众的高度评价。
The least-seen of Mackendrick’s Ealing pictures, The Maggie tells an unusual story of a culture clash between the Old and New Worlds. Its title is the name of a decrepit Scottish vessel whose wily captain blackmails an American tycoon into using his ramshackle boat to move valuable furniture to an island mansion. Mackendrick's precursor to Local Hero applies an almost anthropological interest in the vestiges of village culture in the postwar world to establish an irresolvable dichotomy between Yankee pragmatism and materialism and the penurious charm and superstitions of the islanders