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...Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences threw in its sordid lot with the apostles of non-violence last night, naming In the Heat of the Night best picture, its star Rod Steiger best actor, and Sterling Silliphant's script best original screenplay. The chief victim of the backlash was Bonnie and Clyde, which for the sensitive members of the Academy conjured up visions of Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown...
...improvised in other ways. Drawing on his five years of treatment in New York, he remembered two characteristics of his own analyst: "He had too many patients, and he was always exhausted." Steiger made the psychiatrist a chainsmoking, unshaven, love-haunted man -none of which was reflected in the screenplay...
...establishment of middle-class British values on a boat in the jungle must have interested both Agee and Collier as script-writers; the published screenplay in Agee On Film lavishes detail on Cockney inflection and deliberately tortured syntax. Here, Huston's casting defeats the intent: however much Bogart accentuates his buck teeth, he is largely out of place as a Cockney mechanic; his best moments are asides and wisecracks reminiscent of the two Hawks films, The Big Sleep and To Have And Have Not, and he must rely heavily on a stylized comedy technique borrowed wholesale from vintage Cary Grant...
...Houghton) engaged to a too-too successful doctor (Sidney Poitier) who, in the jargon of the early 60's, "happens to be a Negro." Of course the liberal editor turns out to have trouble practicing what he preaches, whereon the plot of the movie is hinged. William Rose's screenplay offers humor (the girl's parents' reaction on meeting Poitier; his parents' reaction on meeting Miss Houghton), suspense (who will talk to whom in which room next?), and incisive social commentary (we are brothers under the skin). Some reviewers have been kind enough to call it a drawing-room comedy...
...somewhat less spectacular level, is what one had every right to expect from a Styne-Harburg collaboration. The property--Arnold Bennett's novel Buried Alive--made two successful movies, and there seemed no reason why it couldn't sustain a successful musical too. But Nunnally Johnson, who did the screenplay to the 1943 movie Holy Matrimony, has merely tightened his script a little and introduced a few new scenes in converting it to musical comedy. It isn't enough. Though Holy Matrimony was a charming comedy, its success is in retrospect attributable to the genius of its star, Monty Woolley...