Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with an original story that seemed, for movie purposes, to be nothing but fragments and figments, DeMille turned four writers loose on the job of working up a convincing script. They telescoped the Biblical account, invented some new sequences, tinkered with motivations, added characters, threw in some dancing girls. Major change: Delilah became the younger sister of the nameless Philistine woman who was the Biblical Samson's wife. The final adaptation skillfully manages to achieve the most serviceability for the screen with the least violence to Scripture. Its best job is to create conviction in Samson...
...things as Atomic Energy Kits (complete with radioactive screen and uranium ore), Fotokits (with negatives of George Washington, Roy Rogers, Stan Musical, and Rita Hayworth), ping-pong firing Sub-machine Guns ("harmless to bulbs and bric-a-brac"), and a Milton Berle puppet kit ("containing also an actual television script.") There was also a miniature candy-vending machine (subway-type) which required pennies to operate...
...fault lies in the script, not in the acting of the east. Claude Jarman, Jr., as the boy, and Jauno Hernandez, as the Negro, are both excellent, especially the former in his portrayal of terror. Elizabeth Patterson gives another of her solid performances as the old lady who believes in justice even for black people...
...looked like a small-town schoolmaster, still firmly stood his ground. For the first time in the weird history of Communist show trials, a major defendant had stepped out of the part assigned him and had yelled defiance till the end at the hidden author of the script.*Defendant Kostov provided some biting lines of his own. Questioned about Tito's police chief, Alexander Rankovic, he said: "I went to a banquet with him once where he proposed a toast. All he could say was 'Long live Stalin,' and then he sat down. A man of very...
While Actress Channing is a happily blown-up Lorelei, the script is a sadly watered-down Blondes; and the score is almost everywhere commonplace. Lorelei's less rapacious pal Dorothy (Yvonne Adair), after having all the life knocked out of her in the script, takes up a lot of dull romantic room in the show. And Dancer Anita Alvarez, who is always good for an eccentric specialty or two, is foolishly converted into a standby...