Word: screened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start dropping like flies, or so the spectator gathers. Actually, only one case of radiation sickness is shown, and the only symptom indicated is a thermometer in the fellow's mouth. Presently the government passes out some lethal pills, and the populace meekly lies down to die-off-screen...
...Despite shortcomings, including a hero who is pretty much an overgrown boy scout, Director William Wyler's $15 million film version of Major General Lew Wallace's Biblical bestseller (1880) is the most expensive and the best screen spectacle ever produced...
...picture itself is just a wide-screen ("Totalscope") travelogue filmed two years ago in Red China by Italy's globetrotting Count Leonardo Bonzi (Green Magic, Lost Continent). At times the DeLuxe color photography by Pierludovico Pavoni and Alesandro d'Eva is magnificent. (Best scene: a mistily magical sequence in which the fishermen of the Kwei valley, winged like big birds in their bright wet coats of bark, glide out upon the morning waters on their slender rafts and dance them on the current to attract the fish.) But the film as a whole has no shape, makes only...
Married. Teresa Wright, 40, actress of stage (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs), screen (The Best Years of Our Lives) and TV (The Miracle Worker); and Robert Anderson, 42, playwright (Tea and Sympathy; Silent Night, Lonely Night); both for the second time; in Los Angeles...
...best (and most expensive) screen spectacle ever produced...