Kimonotony

Bridge to the Sun (MGM) is a woman's picture that sets out to celebrate the glories of interracial marriage but merely manages to prove that it can be as dull as the other kind. Cut and dried from Gwen Terasaki's bestselling autobiography, Bridge tells the story of a sweet young thing from back-country Tennessee (Carroll Baker) who in the middle '30s meets and marries a handsome young first secretary (James Shigeta) in the Japanese embassy in Washington. When the groom takes the bride back home to meet the folks, she makes all the predictable mistakes: wears her shoes in the house, interrupts when a man is talking, steps into a car before her husband, squeals when a male friend of the family attempts to share her bath. Back in Washington again, her husband works hard to avert war, and when it comes he orders his wife to stay in the U.S. with their daughter. She gravely refuses, and the rest of the picture describes what life was like in wartime Japan for a sweet young thing from back-country Tennessee. It wasn't exactly chrysanthemums all the way, but somehow what the spectator notices most is the kimonotony.

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