Harrison's Reports praised the performances from Heston and Loren and summarized the film as "raw and strong, brooding and challenging, romantic and powerfully dramatic. It is motion picture entertainment ascending new heights of pomp, pageantry, panoply."[48] Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times opened his review writing, "El Cid brings back the excitement of movie-making; it may even bring back the excitement of movie-going. It's as big as Ben-Hur if not bigger. If it had put a few more connectives in the narrative, if it had not thrown in an excess of everything else in three hours running time, it might have been great."[49] A review in Newsweek described the film as being "crammed with jousts and battles, and its sound track is reminiscent of Idlewild airport on a busy day, but the dramatics in it explode with all the force of a panful of popcorn." It also derided Mann's direction as "slow, stately, and confused, while Miss Loren and Heston spend most of the picture simply glaring at each other."[50]
Trenholme, of course, was surprised, since he was paying the man arare compliment; he had expressed in the inn his full and free opinion[Pg 8]concerning all money grubbers, and the Fenley species thereof inparticular; whereupon the stout Eliza, who classed the Fenley familyas "rubbish," informed him that there was a right of way through thepark, and that from a certain point near a lake he could sketch thegrand old manor house to his heart's content, let the Fenleys andtheir keepers scowl as they chose.
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"Mr. Fenley was shot dead on his own doorstep," continued Eliza. Shegave proper emphasis to the concluding words. That a man should bemurdered "on his own doorstep" was a feature of the crime thatenhanced the tragedy in the public mind. The shooting was bad enoughin itself, for rural England is happily free from such horrors; butswift and brutal death dealt out on one's own doorstep was a thing atonce monstrous and awe-compelling. [Pg 118]Eliza, perhaps, wondered why Mr.Trenholme flushed, but she fully understood the sudden blanching ofhis face at her tidings, for all Roxton was shaken to its foundationswhen the facts slowly percolated in that direction.
Eileen Garth was "tall and slim," "good-looking, but rather snappy."Well, twenty years ago, the description would have applied to thewoman he had just seen. Her voice, heard under admittedly adverseconditions, was correct in accent and fairly cultured. Before theworld had hardened it its tones might have been soft and dulcet. Butabove all, there was the presumable discovery that Eileen Garth was asdecidedly opposed as Robert Fenley to full and free discussion of thatmorning's crime.
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