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...hardly a fresh Wind. The fictionalized treatment of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" was a 1955 play; the 1960 movie version has been run and rerun on television. But despite the script's many previous lives, Schaefer, employing Ed Begley and Melvyn Douglas from the Broadway cast, managed to make this reincarnation seem new and important...
...shrunk down to 21 inches simply because they knew Schaefer would be calling the shots. Said doughty Trevor Howard after taping Eagle in a Cage: "I'd play Mickey Mouse for him. I trust him. He is one of the few directors for whom I would work script unseen." Emmy Winner Julie Harris calls Schaefer "positively inspired...
...maintain the quality of these first pieces, the magazine will be something to look forward to. The play, David Cole's The Icefield of the Absolute Encounter, is a far-above-average student script, the kind of play there has never been a satisfactory way of presenting to the college. Single performances in the Experimental Theatre, usually by inexperienced casts, rarely do justice to original plays. If Harvard's dramatists have a collective fault, it is trying to cram too much intellectualizing into their scripts -- the dialogue washes over audiences, leaving them confused. If the Drama Review continues to print...
...film is flawed by oversimplification and contrivance, for the script makes Colin's latent homosexuality more credible than his unsuspecting innocence. And the dice are conveniently loaded against marital sex, since Actress Tushingham's shrill, seriocomic strumpet is written and played in a manner guaranteed to subdue passion in any red-blooded youth. Most of the time, however, the characters in Leather Boys seem stronger than the pat fiction imposed upon them. In the hands of Director Furie and his exuberantly wayward cast, their lives unreel with a moment-to-moment immediacy that is funny, fascinating and human...
Given a one-joke script, Director George Abbott whipped it into a happy frenzy that survived for three seasons on Broadway. Movie Director Bud Yorkin borrows bits of Abbott's inventiveness, but his own method is to linger over a gag until all the life has run out of it. He belabors a drunk scene, overestimates the humor in the plight of Ford's married but childless daughter (Connie Stevens) who browbeats her callow husband (Jim Hutton) into orgies of planned parenthood. There is something unwholesomely prudish about a hip young modern who greets the revelation...