Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sharpe and lyricized by William Scudder are seldom clever, but they're usually spirited and often quite tuneful. Members of the cast deserving distinctly honorable mention are Allan Butler, James Young, Allan Dingwall, Robert Gardner, Scudder, Richard Humphrey, David Mackintosh, George Tilghman, Robert Young, and--but hell, this isn't the social register...
Moreover, there isn't much action - only jokes about the tomcat in men, the pussy cat in women, the peacock in actors. Nor has famed French Cinema Director Rene Clair (A Nous, La Liberté!) shown the French touch in his staging. Everybody just cavorts...
Faye Emerson, as a horn-rimmed victim, isn't given much chance to live up to her billing as a lush, dangerous beauty. Zachary Scott, whose best screen performance to date was the simple, down-to-earth Texas farmer in The Southerner, is now being cast by Warner as a no-good city slicker. He makes as much sense as he can of his moronic lines, but the plot machinery jams frequently. Clearly too fast for anyone in the picture, Zachary eventually hastens his own end by tripping over a tree root and pitching over a cliff...
...would think this set-up would be pretty error-tight-but it isn't quite, and mistakes do happen. That's where the second book comes in. It's called "The Black Book," and it records all the errors which have crept into TIME. When you write us about them, we list them in the book and try to print your letter and the correction in "Letters." But some are so hard to spot that none of you ever call us on them. We list these anyway-for our own disciplining...
Asked a committee counsel: "Isn't that type of message of a special significance...