The threads of several simple stories - a young boy encounters an old man down on his luck, two couples meet - are wordlessly interwoven to evoke the rhythm of life in a public park (Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne) in the passing age of winter and the youthful beauty of the approaching spring. Brealey acknowledged the influence of Arne Sucksdorff (Rhythm of a city) on his approach to this film. In 'Sunday in Melbourne' (1958) he took a different approach eschewing staged narrative.
This Traveltalk series short visit to southern Germany begins in Berchtesgaden. After a boat ride on the Königssee and a look at the Neuschwanstein castle, we visit the village of Mittenwald, renowned for making violins, and then go to Oberammergau, where the famous Passion play is performed by village residents every ten years.
Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives.
Mickey Rooney, plugging his latest Columbia film, stops by Ralph Staub's editing room and film vault, and the two of them watch clips from Rooney's films, dating back as far as the Mickey McGuire comedies.
"The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike Canelli, the man from Cairo, nosing around Algiers with mystery surrounding the people he meets and the things he does and has done to him, all deriving from the war-time theft of $100,000,000 in gold which lies somewhere in the adjacent desert.
