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...film's contrived script hits its characters with virtually everything that the Korean War can inflict on the home front. In the thick of these blows is Dana Andrews, a World War II veteran and reserve officer, prospering as a contractor. He sees a young employee go off to the army and death in battle. He watches while the draft board takes his brother (Farley Granger) in the midst of a juvenile romance with the daughter (Peggy Dow) of the draft-board chairman...
...promoter's dream. They always run a good mile race, and the public loves it. Last Saturday, the 17th installment of their series of mile races took place in the Boston Garden to the delight of 13,000 avid track fans. The race went perfectly according to script. Wilt let one of the lesser known runners set the pace, moved out in front after the quarter mark, and then tried to run away from Gehrmann. He failed just as he had failed the night before in Philadelphia, and 15 out of 16 times during the previous winter...
They have ripped Arthur Miller's excellent script from its original setting and placed it practically intact before the cameras. But they could not recreate the stage setting and the atmosphere of the legitimate theatre which are an integral part of Death of a Salesman. A lone figure, small in proportion to the huge frame of the stage, can stand before the audience and deliver an emotional, but long, speech effectively. And often the meaning of this speech depends on the contrast between the size of the character and his back-ground. Death of a Salesman contains speeches which...
Marlene worries about plot so much that she stayed up with her typewriter until three o'clock one morning, pecking out 17 pages of script revisions for the first show. "She's a worker, a hard worker," says Producer Leonard Blair admiringly. "She really rolls up her sleeves. Her suggestions are very good...
...Mountain (Hal Wallis; Paramount) harks back to the most persistent historic figure in recent horse opera: General William Clarke Quantrell, the Rebel guerrilla. This time, in Technicolor, Alan Ladd foils the greedy designs that the script lays to Quantrell: a scheme for carving out his own empire in the West...