Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture is equally undistinguished from a technical standpoint. Shot in the wonderfully-colored southwestern badlands without benefit of Technicolor, "Four Faces West" is remarkable for the monotonous recurrence of the same scenery. Either they ran out of gas or the cameraman had gout, but the entire script, chases and all, could have been shot within a 25-foot circle. And the title,--ah, the title. Just what manner of animal has four faces all of which are turned westward is a nifty little mystery that can occupy your mind for at least five seconds. It could be the hero...
...during that day's session. At its close an aide handed Laguerre a sheet of paper written in Byrnes's famed old-style court-stenographer's shorthand. The trouble was that not even Byrnes's own aides, who were used to it, could read the script, and the Secretary himself was not available to decipher it. The sheet of paper now reposes under glass on the wall of Laguerre's office, and to this day nobody knows what it says...
...free to accept offers from Broadway, where he is also in great demand. One offer is for Lillian Hellman's forthcoming dramatization of the best-selling The Naked and the Dead. Clift doesn't know whether he'll do it : he hasn't seen the script...
...problem such as this was surely met many times during the war by the various commanding officers in every branch of the service, and the problem of Mr. Haines' general is, in itself, though compelling, not sufficient reason to make this a recommended play. The real merit of the script lies in the addition of several 'complications' to the basic plot, and ach of these, though rather contrived, is self-indicting. The main targets of Mr. Haines' ire are: politics in the Army, ineptitude in the higher echelons, lack of co-operation between Army and Navy, and the pressure...
...stamps are designed by four busy men in the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing. All four have been to art school and gone through an apprenticeship in the Bureau, designing ornamental scrolls and script for banknotes. But they are primarily draftsmen; the designs themselves usually come to them down a long bureaucratic ladder...