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Grand Illusion evoked nostalgia for the comfortable 1914 world that charmed the audiences of the thirties and continues to charm viewers today. Renoir's screenplay innovations (like the famous "Marseillaise" Scene that Micheal Curtiz lifted for Casablanca) were well supported by three superb performances from Pierre Fresnay, Jean Gabin, and Erich von Stroheim...
...newer offering lacks both originality in screenplay and inspiration in performance. One might think that Elusive Corporal evokes nothing and essentially tells nothing because it is an adaptation from a novel instead of an original Renoir creation. But the theft of ideas from other films is unforgivable and infuriating. Remember that hilarious scene in Stalag 17 when Harry and Animal paint a white line down the middle of the road to the Russian women's compound? Renoir turned his team of escapers into road measurers instead of painters. Escape from Colditz, A British film of the early fifties...
Newman's acting is one of two things that make Hud better than just a good modern adult western. The other is the screenplay, adapted by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. from a novel by Larry McMurtry. Besides being an absorbing study in the conflict between two strong personalities, it is that rarity among Hollywood scripts, a critique of society...
...color photography is unnecessary and jarring, but little else is wrong with this film. With accurate casting, a swift screenplay, and authentic German settings, Producer-Director John Sturges has created classic cinema of action. There is no sermonizing, no soul probing, no sex. The Great Escape is simply great escapism...
...back in a new medium, in which she demonstrates similar mastery. She even collaborated on the screenplay with Stephen Lewis, author of the original stage play (and also one of the supporting players in the film...