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...original 95 minutes of footage, the Swiss film was a diffuse blend of travelogue and art catalogue, distinguished mainly by its sensitive photography. A group of young film craftsmen-Producer Robert Snyder, Director Richard Lyford, Writer Norman Borisoff-took it apart and put it together again. Their new script uses a tighter story continuity, thumbnail art critiques, a telling musical score and a narration spoken by Fredric March...
...perfectly obvious that the script writer for this film never got closer to the sands of Iwo Jima than Laguna Beach. He has, however, read several lousy war books, from which he has gleaned that 1.) all sergeants are tough, but underneath they are just like anyone else; 2.) the boys on the beachheads are more preoccupied with life around the corner drugstore back home than they are with the war immediately at hand; and 3.) the Marines have a great tradition...
From this factual melange Sari Scott has written a play, her first. Any resemblance between what she has intended and the present production is unfortunate. The script is full of cliches of the "I hain't never loved no other woman," type. Donald Curtis, playing opposite Carol Stone, seems to be uncertain as to the interpretation of his role and consequently divides his time between two different ones. With the exception of a fine "mad" scene climaxed by an car-shattering scream, Miss Stone also has trouble giving credibility to her part. This is especially apparent because she has chosen...
...feature assignment. Director Mackendrick has some expert allies: the players, besides Radford, include Wylie Watson, Gordon Jackson and a fetching blonde named Joan Greenwood. Best of all, he has an unerring screenplay, based on Compton Mackenzie's novel, Whisky Galore, and written by Mackenzie and Angus Macphail. The script savors the cream of the jest, wastes not a drop and ends gracefully with a wry concession to the moral superiority of teetotalers...
Armed with overage dialogue ("Do you believe in love at first sight?"), they dawdle on leave in rear-area bases. Agar meets and marries a vacuous blonde, played by Adele Mara as if she were struggling to learn how to talk. The script even dredges up a golden-hearted harlot (Julie Bishop) and throws her at Wayne's head. But the tough sergeant never lays a finger on her; when he learns that her tot is in the next room, he opens a box of Pablum. (Says she, impressed: "You know about babies...