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...first time since 1950 (with Stage Fright), Hitchcock has filmed a B-picture script. Screenwriter Brian Moore fails to create a well-motivated plot, or even convincing cloak-and-dagger device. Like most of Hitchcock's "adventure" films, as he describes them, Torn Curtain's script is built around set-pieces: climactic scenes like the Mt. Rushmore sequence in North by Northwest or the music-hall finale in The 39 Steps. But with one magnificent exception, a grisly murder scene that borders on the hilarious, Torn Curtain's set-pieces don't work...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Irish Playwright Brian Friel, knowing that every man is his own toughest critic and most devoted fan, uses two actors to play the inner and outer selves of a youth torn between nostalgia and expectation on the eve of his departure for America. The device is stunning and absorbing...
Veteran Director Henry Hathaway delivers every shock of the linear plot without striving for subtlety. Among the sweaty stereotypes encountered, Brian Keith rings true as an amiable peddler who teaches young Nevada how to shoot. Keith warns the lad to give up his search for the killers, or "root with them in the garbage." Nevada prefers to root, and finds plenty of raw material. A winsome Kiowa Indian prostitute (Janet Margolin) and a Cajun slattern (Suzanne Pleshette) lend immoral support before he finally corners and cripples the third and last gunman (Karl Maiden) after joining his band of cutthroats. Nevada...
...Somebody showed me where you got some nameless guy, they most always are when a writer needs a quote, saying about Marion Javits wanting the Senator to see Hugh O'Brian and Columnist Jimmy Breslin! before taking a trip to Viet Nam. Marvelous. Now let's see. There was a third name there that Marion Javits kept yelling at her Jack to talk to before he went to Viet Nam. I think if you would call Marion Javits she would tell it to you. I think you ought to print the third name, too. Marion Javits' idea...
...life, her real concerns are art, literature and the theater. "She drives him crazy and his staff up the wall," says a Washington friend of the Senator's. "She is terribly disorganized. Her idea of whom he should see before going to Viet Nam was Actor Hugh O'Brian and Columnist Jimmy Breslin!" Withal, admits the friend, "she is a warm and lovable woman with deep feeling for Jack and their children...