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...screenplay and dialogue are by Françoise Sagan; she and Chabrol started out to do a picture about the life of George Sand, but became bored with the idea and switched from blue story to Bluebeard in mid-project. The film is mean to ladies in more ways than murder. Its closeups of fading Film Queens Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan constitute a photographic invasion of privacy. One corpulent beldam, a doomed weekend guest at Landru's Art Nouveau rookery near Paris, eats raspberries from Landru's hand and ends up with jam dribbling wretchedly down...
...Mann, believes militantly that "a great screenwriter should be given the same consideration as a great playwright." By a great screenwriter he means Abby Mann. Passing through New York, Mann had seen a preview version of the editing job that Director De Sica had applied to the latest Mann screenplay-an adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona. Mann was displeased. He typed out five single-spaced pages of complaint, leaped aboard a plane for Rome, and told De Sica to change the film or drop the name of Abby Mann from the screen credits. Last...
Researcher & Freedman. All this fustian unfortunately belies the actual writer inside-a hardworking, competent journeyman whose dedication to his profession is genuine. A Child Is Waiting is an original Abby Mann screenplay (actually based on an Abby Mann TV play) about retarded children. When Paramount Pictures insisted on using Hollywood kid actors instead of retarded children themselves, Mann emptied his bank account to buy back the option to the script. He wanted real retarded children to show how close to normal they are, or seem...
...Perry turned the doctor's novel into a fully developed screenplay, successfully inventing many scenes to fulfill, rather than simply fill out, the story. It was a very nice piece of work, and when the Perrys tried to get the backing of a major studio, they were not-as custom would have it-turned away icily by the crass boobs of Hollywood. They were just turned away. It lacked size, and the great paradox of movie financing is that it's easy to milk fortunes out of Hollywood for high-budget stupendaganzas, but next to impossible...
Everything about The Horse's Mouth is deft, and much of it is truly remarkable. Guinnesss wrote the screenplay himself--basing it, of course, on Joyce Cary's novel--and this, certainly, is worthy of some note. The minor characters are all broadly comic, or meant to be (why is it that, ever since Dickens, the English have always thought that anything said in Cockney is screamingly funny?), but that, to be sure, only emphasizes the subtlety of Jimson. "Michaelangelo, Blake--you're one on them" is the epitaph that Nosy, Gully's disciple, suggests at the movie...