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Inside Expert John Gunther packed his bags for Hollywood and a new assignment for a hypercritical editor: to try to do a movie script "with a European background" for Greta Garbo who has not found a suitable one since...
...atomic emergency ("In case of shock, don't move the victim; keep him warm; raise his legs to increase the flow of blood"). Actress Joan Bennett was an able guest commentator who took the trouble to learn her lines for delivery without benefit of script. Future guests: Arlene Francis, Martha Scott, Basil Rathbone...
...some of the fanciest footwork in the business, was up against a wily, hit & run boxer who attacks in flurries, shifts into a weaving defense designed to make his opponent look like a floundering club fighter. For the first two minutes of Round One Gavilan stuck right to the script, bouncing in to pepper Bratton from his low crouch, bouncing back away again to duck Bratton's right. Then he caught Bratton flush in the face with a jolting right cross, followed it up with a blinding series of rights, lefts and underswung bolo punches that brought the Garden...
...script takes Congresswoman Crawford back to Good Hope College, to accept an honorary degree and renew her friendship with a professor (Robert Young), now the college president, whom she shielded 20 years before when she was expelled from college for staying out all night with him. She is pursued by a LIFE photographer (Frank Lovejoy), who wants to renew the romance they began when she was a glamorous war correspondent...
Director Lean, who wrote the script with Stanley Haynes, has trimmed away some excess narrative, jettisoned a few minor characters, juggled a few incidents for dramatic effect, but salvaged much of Dickens' original dialogue. Yet Oliver Twist is more than an intelligent adaptation; it is a major creative effort by one of the few directors who has mastered his medium...