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...stage show, which, fortunately, it does much of the time. The book, first pieced together by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling from some Damon Runyon stories, suffers very little in the transition. It still traces the frantic efforts of Nathan Detroit the manager of "the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York," to find a home for his business activities safe from annoying policemen. Detroit thinks his rent-money problem is solved when he bets one of his customers, Sky Masterson, that Sky cannot take a certain female missionary to Havana. But he only manages to start...
...best part of the whole film is the choreography of Micheal Kidd. In his final ballet, he transforms a crap game in a sewer into an urgent, exciting tribal ritual that shows Runyon's saints and sinners, the guys and dolls of Broadway, far more clearly than they appear above ground. This dance alone makes the movie worth seeing...
Before reading your Oct. 24 explanation of the Crown of Thorns by Alfred Manessier, the painting had already become a "meaningful experience" to me. I thought it was two red eggs in the nest of a mentally confused bird, over which a one-eyed crap shooter had carefully laid a spiked steel trap...
...Hollywood script keeps close to the Broadway book. As the show begins, such assorted knouts, beer-needlers and pete-lousers as Nicely Nicely, Benny Southstreet, Harry the Horse and Angie the Ox are in their customary condition of p.m. panic. "The oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York" is about to sink. Its proprietor, one Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), cannot raise the rent money for a suitably secluded backroom. Happens, however, he runs into Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a curly wolf at all games of chance, and lays the sucker a G he cannot make it to Havana...
...retread of a bestseller, Not As a Stranger, that was cashing in big. He also had two major movies in the can (The Tender Trap, a comedy, and Guys and Dolls, a musical in which he portrays Nathan Detroit, proprietor of "The world's oldest permanent floating crap game"), and had signed contracts for Carousel and three more. Probable total: five movies in twelve months. Probable personal in come from pictures in that period...