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...Capra's contribution, which includes co-authorship of the script, it is consistently brilliant, but at its most apparent best in a scene in which Stewart sees how things would be if he had never been born. Such touches of fantasy usually are done with the hero on the sidelines, peacefully observing what goes on. Capra makes the scene doubly effective by having Stewart right in its middle, not fully believing or understanding what's happening, and actually going through a desperate and painful experience. It is this combination of reality and fantasy, the merging of the elements of both...
...class" bar and company picnic, and most of the-supporting performances, are unusually shrewd keyhole glimpses of U.S. provincial life. Sonny Tufts's transformation from a big, pleasant male ingenue to a resourceful actor is as impressive as it is startling. With plenty of assistance from script and direction, Tufts gives a cruelly recognizable portrait of a neurotic extravert: a type all too common in real life and all too rarely seen-through on the screen...
...Memphis' radio station WHHM, seasoned (15 years) Announcer Cecil J. Fike, onetime soldier with three and a half years AAF service in the Pacific, suddenly tossed away his script, banged on a table and shouted: "Are you listening, Crump,* damn you! This is an opportunity I've been waiting for for a long time. . . ." Thereupon, hour after hour, while phones jangled, fervent, incoherent Cecil Fike aired almost every complaint known to veterans. Next morning, dishevelled, tired and fired, he explained: "I just...
...script glosses over The Fall, ends with a regulation cliff-hang: Will Adam tell Cain & Abel why their parents were kicked out of the Garden of Eden? And if he does, what will the unmanageable Cain...
...planet," mused Professor I. A. Richards, literary critie, lecturer in Humanities 1a, and one of Harvard's hardest-hitting opponents of scholarship in-a-vacuum. "Do you know that of the 22 hundred million people in the world, 15 hundred million don't read at all, or read a script which doesn't use an alphabet?" he went on, in a tone of bitterness and shock which made it plain that his fight against illiteracy and incomplete communication is a root fact of his life...