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...movie script is being published this autumn, however, which ignores the close-shot, long-shot lingo of the camera's eye, implicitly mistrusts the camera's capacity to discern, and with a natural if unnecessary eloquence offers its own scene-setting visions of South Pacific backgrounds. Small wonder. Called The Beach of Falesá, the script was written by Dylan Thomas. In its stagy directions, "a stream foams out of the descending galleries and gardens of the tremendous, verdurous, impenetrable high interior of the island," and a "lantern and the moonlight make the bush all turning shadows that...
Dark & Charmed. Based on a novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas' movie was commissioned in the late '40s by a subsidiary of the J. Arthur Rank organization. But Rank dissolved the subsidiary before the film could be produced, and the script vanished into the Rank bank. Richard Burton owns it now, in partnership with a New York producer, and sooner or later Burton intends to commit the story to film, with himself starring as an island trader named Wiltshire...
...from the drama, presents even more impressive credentials. It is directed by Vittorio De Sica. It stars, along with Fredric March and Robert Wagner, two 1961 Oscar winners: Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell. And it is written by Abby Mann, who also carried off a 1961 Oscar for his script of Judgment at Nuremberg. But there will hardly be any such laurels for Altona. It is a ponderous, pretentious, interminable Germanic muddle of a movie, one of the year's noisier bombs...
What went wrong? The script. Scenarist Mann is a competent carpenter, and he has no trouble assembling the big blocks of Sartre's story. At war's end the sensitive son (Schell) of a German shipping magnate (March) shuts himself up in his father's attic and for 15 years pretends that his country lies in permanent ruins. To his crazy way of thinking, if defeat had not really meant destruction for his country, how then could he justify the killing he had done, the crimes he had committed to assure his country's survival...
...picked from 750 applicants and a girl from Japan who spent 14 hours a day trying to learn how to pronounce the name of the show: except in French Canada, where it is called La Jardiniere, Romper Room is the name of the show no matter what language the script may be translated into, and Japan's Midori Namiki couldn't seem to keep herself from saying Lomper Loom...