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What beats me is that the same script, written by the same author, played by the same cast, can evoke such antitheatrical opinions between the Cinema and Theater reviewers of your magazine. This seems less an illustration of journalistic democracy than critical anarchy...
Bernstein and his collaborators (book and lyrics by Comden and Green) provided a solid script and score on the standard boy-meets-looses-regains-girl line. Winthrop and the 'Cliffe successfully keep the tunes moving and the legs flashing, with the gaiety and the girls only occasionally sagging...
Occasionally, a movie is made in which the invisible director is the most important element. Such, happily, is the case with "The 400 Blows." The camera replaces much of the dialogue, elaborating, where words are inadequate, the emotional content of the script. It is this visual characterization that lifts "The 400 Blows" above its fairly familiar story of misunderstood youth and makes it a strikingly beautiful and affecting motion picture...
...sunshine, beer and coeds. This year there was the added stimulus of a sexy film, Where the Boys Are, to bring them running, and the annual invasion was the biggest ever. But, the students discovered, Lauderdale in the spring was dismayingly tame in comparison with the M-G-M script. It was, in fact, just one big. frustrating bore, and the problem was to find something...
...last week's The Real West, is that it allows time for thought. Says he: "You can stop and pick out things. You can look deep in someone's eyes and say what he said." Aided by Gary Cooper's relaxed narration of a fine script, the program looked deep into the eyes of settlers, cowboys. Indians, Westerners of all conditions. With sure irony, it demolished the legends perpetuated on endless TV westerns as it showed the fabled desperadoes as greasy punks, the heroic sheriffs as smalltime officeholders, and the beautiful dance-hall girls a lot uglier...