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Although the Byran Hooker translation has been carefully followed--with a few rather puzzling exceptions, Hollywood has been able to make over much of "Cyrano" in its own image. Over and above the interpretation, several action scenes suggested by the plot have been inserted for the benefit of the medium. Some of these are good, some not so good. The duels, which make excellent use of Ferrer's ability as a swordsman, are well-photographed and lavish with expendable extras...
...most ways, the story has been intelligently remolded for the screen. Working from the Brian Hooker translation, Scripter Carl Foreman has tightened the play's continuity-a good idea in any Cyrano production-without muffling its lyricism or wit. By dramatizing Rostand's offstage action and breaking each scene into bits small enough for the camera to digest, he has given the picture unusual mobility for an adaptation from the stage. Among the additions: a blade-by-blade filming of Cyrano's duel with the cutthroats...
...continuous except for penalties, and there are no time-outs or substitutes. The ball is put in play by throwing it into the "scrum"--the eight forwards of each team who lock arms, put their heads together, and attempt to get and stop the ball from each other. The "hooker"--middle man in the front row of three--heels it back through the ranks until it is taken by the "scrum half" who hands behind the scrum. He throws it out laterally to the fly half, who tosses it center three-quarters, and they to the wings...
...John Cotter is the scrum-half, Roger Gleeby is the "lock," polo-playing Tom Calhoun the other wing forward, while George Lee, Club secretary, and Brad Lundborg make up the second row. Doug Hardy and Club treasurer Bruce White are in the front row, with Lew Travis as be hooker. The spares are Hollis Hunnewell, Ken Kunhardt, Kit Liang, Andy Eklund, and David Akers...
...Among them: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, Fighting Joe Hooker...