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Director Reed and Scripter Harry Kurnitz have far fewer things to say about people than they have ways to say them. The theme of The Man Between is, after all, no more than love-on-the-run, and all the political furniture could just as well be Grand Rapids-it is only there for the hero and heroine to fall over. As a result, Director Reed spends much of his time straining for exquisite effects (e.g., the hoarse crunch of snow under the Russian kidnap-car as it crawls like a malevolent beetle in pursuit of the heroine) that...
...slept in tents, made their own beds. They read the Bible, learned chants and rituals, and rehearsed the religious play which climaxes each retreat. This one, titled The Spaniard, was about the life of Maimonides, 12th century Jewish philosopher, and was written by Film-scripter Michael Blankfort...
Pete did not understand, and thereby hangs the tale. For Scripter Pete Verrill is not many changes of underwear away from Peter Viertel, the author of White Hunter, Black Heart, who in 1951 spent some months in the Congo as scriptwriter with the company of The African Queen, which was directed by John Huston. Viertel invited Huston to read the manuscript. Said Huston: "You can write anything you want about...
Such goings-on, shrewdly and precisely tied together, are mainly the work of Scripter David Swift and Director James Sheldon. But it is 27-year-old Wally Cox himself who gives the show its real flavor. Detroit-born Wally Cox fits naturally into Teacher Peepers' shoes. When he moved to Manhattan in 1942, he enrolled at City College for a botany course. "I was a flower-watcher," he says. "I still am, for that matter, but I found I didn't care how they worked; I just liked to watch them." Then he was drafted into the Army...
...Pilgrims' transatlantic high jinks, may not be absolutely factual history, but Producer Schary hopes the film will be "a contribution to the American idea . . ." In Massachusetts, Henry Hornblower, president of Plimoth Plantation, Inc., a research group consulted by Scripter Deutsch, does not yet know the worst. "I suppose," says he, "that the movie will show Priscilla spinning. There is no evidence that a spinning wheel was brought over on the Mayflower...