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A. H. WEILER

As an artist who has been known to exercise a fertile imagination, Jean Cocteau is disappointingly unimaginative in "The Storm Within."…

M. Cocteau, who herein is inspecting the amours of a singularly unstable family, merely has come up with a series of tempestuous harangues, hysterical outbursts, nebulous soul-searchings and petty plots signifying nothing especially new about either sacred or profane love. And, despite a generally proficient cast, "The Storm Within" is, anomalously, a static drama, which talks a great deal about emotions while projecting little of same….

"The Storm Within" is only a tempest in a teapot.

A. H. Weiler, "'The Storm Within'," in The New York Times (© 1950 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), April 24, 1950, p. 21.

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1. Introduction
2. C. G. Wallis
3. Bosley Crowther
4. Bosley Crowther
5. A. H. Weiler
6. Bosley Crowther
7. Jean R. Debrix
8. C. A. Lejeune
9. Neal Oxenhandler
10. William Whitebait
11. Peter John Dyer
12. Roger Manvell
13. Bosley Crowther
14. Roy Armes
15. George Amberg
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