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Author F. Hugh Herbert's dialogue is light and sparking, his screenplay a wonderfully successful vehicle for his heroine's naivete. William Holden is easy going and competent while David Niven wisely plays with restraint a part that is rather overwritten. And though there are some stage waits toward the end and the direction falters slightly, Miss McNamara's winsomeness and Mr. Herbert's comic talent conspire to produce delightfully witty entertainment...
...screenplay focuses more sharply than the novel did on Private Robert E. Lee ("Prew") Prewitt, the "hardhead" who can "soldier with any man," the 30-year man who cannot play it smart because he is cursed with a piece of ultimate wisdom. As he puts it, "If a man don't go his own way, he's nothin...
...story and screenplay were furnished by two veteran playwrights who have dabbled in the movies before-Robert Sherwood (The Best Years of Our Lives) and Samson Raphaelson (The Jazz Singer, 1952 version)-but they seem to be writing down to the movies. While they occasionally use words of three syllables, the ideas are generally kindergarten. The story tells of an ambitious young playwright (Tom Morton) who tries to make the big jump from the Lower East Side to Broadway. But while romancing the theater, he neglects his small-town girl (Mary Murphy), who begins to pay attention to a hardware...
...conies in a winner only when the jockey sings to it. Also figuring in the cast: a wealthy racehorse owner (Nina Foch) and an aspiring actress (Polly Bergen) with a one-horse stable, both of whom are pursuing a handsome trainer (Howard Keel). With its strained horseplay and plodding screenplay. Fast Company is strictly an also...
After vanishing for nearly two decades, "The Ghost Goes West" materializes again, this time on the Brattle's screen. Combining slapstick and fantasy, Robert Sherwood's imaginative screenplay portrays the adventures of an ocean-going phantom...