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Garfield and Turner have done as much for this hodge-podge as any two mis-cast screensters can accomplish in one film. "Postman," if it hadn't been so thoroughly "improved" between story and script, would have come closer to acclaim as a first-rate movie...
Other than script and direction trouble, the picture's chief drawback is its disastrous miscasting of Barbara Stanwyck as a featherweight. Her no-nonsense personality jars a skittery light comedy right off its fragile moorings. When Barbara slips into a filmy negligee and begins to thresh about a hotel bedroom with her leading man, it is impossible to remember that she is supposed to be just kidding around...
...acting and direction and production, Laurence Olivier has done one of the greatest jobs in the history of the screen or the stage. The script is good...
When he made Cyrano's ugliness so prominent, Rostand took a chance on slipping over into the ridiculous. Ferrer's production strikes the delicate balance between pomposity and farce. At rare moments in the comic scenes there is an overstraining after effect, but this can be blamed on the script. It is when Rostand tries to be another Shakespeare or Racine that the play loses its dash. The death of Christian, the puppet lover, and the end of Cyrano himself in a nunnery are on the edge of ennui. Written at a time when audiences liked their melodrama lush...
...face is red about the whole incident. . . . We wrote a script about a schoolteacher and my scriptwriters used the name of Harcleroad. At the last minute, it was called to my attention that we had used the name Harcleroad previously . . . so in searching for a substitute name, my memory reverted to you and the old days at Bryant...