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...schoolteacher (Richard Widmark) who is harried by battle-induced migraine. Unlike the others, Halls gives its characters some dimension and illusion of freshness. The characterizations of Lieut. Widmark and two insecure enlisted men (Richard Hylton, Skip Homeier), for example, are bolstered by short flashbacks to civilian life. Scripter Michael Blankfort also goes beyond lip service to the standard war-is-hell theme; his marines (including Walter Palance, Karl Maiden, Bert Freed and Richard Boone) grimly prove that Sherman was right...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's witty examination of some quirks and foibles of the Broadway theater; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter and George Sanders (TIME...
...Magnificent Yankee (MGM) is an affectionate salute to the late Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court, but not a very impressive one. Patterning the movie after his own 1946 Broadway play, Scripter Emmet Lavery sentimentalizes Holmes's life in Washington in the years between T.R. and F.D.R...
...Mudlark. Producer-Scripter Nunnally Johnson's deft version of the legend about the urchin whose devotion to the Crown coaxed Queen Victoria out of a 15-year solitude (TIME...
There is no question that Novelist Caldwell knows how to serve up her gossip with relish. And in the process, she occasionally produces the same kind of little home truths that a good soap-opera scripter turns out. Readers who find it worthwhile to wade through 496 pages of Novelist Caldwell's fast typing in search of such finds will undoubtedly set sales of The Balance Wheel to rising as merrily as those of its twelve predecessors...