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Even before The Dark at the Top of the Stairs hit Broadway, Warner Bros. bought the movie rights, hired Inge to do the screenplay. "In the past, I did not feel ready to tackle Hollywood," says Inge. "But I feel now that I have some mastery my craft." Another upcoming Inge project: his first novel, a story of a boy growing up in the Midwest...
...admission is the author's: it was Calder Willingham himself who wrote the screenplay-which in fact is carved out of the Broadway play that Willingham carved out of his novel in 1953. The film begins at the climax of the play with a magnificent instance of what writers call a "blind lead." The moviegoer is asked to swallow a veritable camel of complex motive and movement, and to swallow it in the dark. For half an hour, while a massive and subtle scheme of revenge takes form before his eyes, the moviegoer has almost no idea what...
Before the guessing game started, Producer King and his two brothers were tagged with a $750,000 piracy suit by the Nassour brothers, independent film producers, who charged that The Brave One was lifted from a story they have been animating for the last four years. Nassour's screenplay was done by Paul Rader, 33, now a Boston television producer, who adapted a script written by Willis O'Brien, the Hollywood special-effects man who put the chill into oldtime movies, e.g., King Kong. After the Oscar-awarding show, Rader got a wooden Oscar from his co-workers...
Perhaps the most encouraging thing about the film is that for once Hollywood permitted a playwright, N. Richard Nash, to write a screenplay which did no serious damage to his original. Nash has a pleasant story to tell. It concerns a brash, fast-talking confidence man who rides into a drought-stricken prairie town and promises to make rain. And he makes rain, too, but not before teaching a girl on the verge of settling down to becoming an old maid something about the power of faith in dreams. All this, including the symbolism involved, comes dangerously close to banality...
John Patrick's screenplay is almost identical to his play, an effective satire of the attempt of the U.S. Government and Army to bring American democracy and values to the inhabitants of Okinawa after the war. Thanks to Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Cinema scope, and Warnercolor the movie is better than the play...