The Journey (1959)
9/10
The Journey-Love Transcends the Cold War ***1/2
15 May 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Three years after the memorable "The King and I," Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner were reunited in this 1959 drama concerning itself with a group of people from around the globe caught up in the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Arriving in the last town of Hungary on their way to Austria, they are taken for interrogation by Russian army people led by Yul Brynner. Among the group is Kerr and Jason Robards. He is a Hungarian fleeing, and Kerr is his lover. Wounded, he can't come down and Brynner at once is suspicious.

Robert Morley is wonderful as the spokesman for the group, and we have E.G. Marshall married to Ann Jackson with 2 children.

You don't have to wonder why Brynner keeps the group. As in 'King' is as domineering as ever, and Kerr is appealing in her appeal to him for mercy.

We have an ending here quite similar to "Casablanca," but the cruelties of war and revolution can't take the time out for love or redemption of Brynner.
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