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...humble screenwriter, I must take exception to your charge of plagiarism. The "run of dialogue" stolen from Jack Benny's mouth did not appear in the original screenplay of Waterhole #3 [Oct. 20]; it oppressed my shell-like ears for the first time at the press preview at Paramount Studios. Now I'm sure you must realize that an original screenplay goes through any number of "improvements" at the hands of its producers (three in this case), directors (I counted at least five the time I sneaked on the set), and stars. Therefore, I pass the mantle...
Derivative as it is, War Wagon moves with surprising force and pace, thanks to Burt Kennedy's taut direction and his cast of old pros. Wayne at 60, and Douglas at 50, can still invest any screenplay with style and gusto. This time they flesh out a standard western with too much gristle and cartilage-but, happily, without an ounce...
ACCIDENT. Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay, and Joseph Losey directed this glacial dissection of human passion against the background of an Oxonian summer...
...judgment on the vapid fashion models, the glassy-eyed crowd watching the Yardbirds, and the tennis players, frequently reaches laughable proportions (two people playing tennis without a ball equals two people living in a world of illusion, get it?). This defect in Blow-Up, mostly the fault of the screenplay, greatly reduces the total effect of the film. Blow-Up, when all is said and done, is a small film dealing with large themes...
...Reading your review of my novel Pedlock & Sons [Oct. 21], I was reminded of the time in 1945 when William Faulkner and I were standing outside Warner Bros, studio waiting for our car, both a little glum since we had been working on the screenplay of Stallion Road. Bill said: "Who's going to star in this?" I said, "A horse." "I mean human." "Ronald Reagan." Bill thought a while and puffed on his Dunhill. "I don't know. Back home we'd run him for public office." "Why?"' Bill thought some more, then said...