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Directed by Carl Reiner Screenplay by Larry Gelbart...
...film is based on Pinero's well-received play of the same name that garnered the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award three years ago, and Pinero seems to have made few concessions to the different demands of the film medium in preparing the screenplay. In short, the first 15 minutes of the movie suggest a play that has been filmed rather than one that has been adapted for the screen. The evocation of a prison atmosphere takes priority over the proper development of a suitable movie plot...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S question for future societies, which he pictures as technological utopias, has always been "Where do we go from here?" Now Clarke himself may be a writer with no place to go. After the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film based on Clarke's screenplay, came Rendezvous with Rama, his 1973 novel which took the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell awards for science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke has become a hard act to follow, particularly for the author himself...
...Screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...
These two different kinds of theater personalities are the subject of John Mankewiezc's screenplay, "All About Eve." Alexandra spent six months turning the screenplayinto a script for the stage--it started as a project for English 160--and now she hopes to see it performed this spring on the Loeb Mainstage if the Harvard Dramatic Club approves...