Word: scenarists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie scenarist or a dramatist makes the transition to TV more easily than a radio writer...
Force of Evil, based on Ira Wolfert's novel Tucker's People, takes too long to say too little, and it uses too much high-flown language in dealing with its lowbrow characters. Unable to keep the story alive with dialogue and camera, Director-Scenarist Abraham Polonsky sometimes puts his star on the sound track as narrator. This leads to some confusion: Has the novel been made into a movie, or is it just being read aloud, with a pictorial background...
...taming of these once adventurous spirits is mildly depressing to watch. When the plot borders on the dreary, Director George Sidney and Scenarist Robert Ardrey brighten things up with more shots of Dancer Kelly's graceful gymnastics. Since the musketeers never fight at odds of less than 20 to 1 (against them, of course) they have an uphill job unraveling the intrigues of the Queen of France (Angela Lansbury), the Duke of Buckingham (John Sutton) and the unctuous Richelieu (Vincent Price...
...keep Sleuth Milland precisely equidistant from himself and the killer takes the kind of nerveless skill required to shave two men with one stroke of a two-edged razor-and produces the same excruciating suspense. Author Fearing's book pulled off the trick very neatly, but Scenarist Jonathan Latimer and Director John Farrow have done an even better job of it in the movie...
When a Hollywood screenwriter gets tired of cliches, it's news. Last week in the Screen Writer, Scenarist Ken Englund (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) begged his colleagues to please avoid...