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While there is enough good acting in "Sunset Boulevard" to put it on the "must see" list, the film suffers from several unfortunate features. The most glaring of these is an overstuffed, unbalanced script. Billy Wilder and Charlie Brackett have just laid it on too thick, a fact which becomes more and more apparent as the film draws to its climax. The outcome is never in doubt since the picture is nearly all one big flashback, narrated by the hero who is floating in a swimming pool with three bullets in his back...
Harvard and Radcliffe's Playwrights Groups have lined up Ernest Hemingway as the fifth judge for the clubs' script contest, closing October...
...Little Foxes") was indisposed, but applauded with enthusiasm the fine performance by Marie Carroll. Miss Carroll read through her lines for the first time but 24 hours before the opening, and rolicarsed only twice with the cast. At one point, an astute observer caught her reading from her script onstage behind a cover of Time, Altogether, it was an amazing job. Miss Collinge will not return for at least a week, but Miss Carroll will see the play nicely through the interim...
Producer Jerry (Johnny Belinda) Wald and Scripter Ranald MacDougall have taken plenty of liberties, but that should not offend Hemingway fans who recognize that To Have and Have Not is one of the master's lesser works. The script reshuffles characters and incidents, creates new ones, even switches locales (from the Florida keys and Cuba to the California coast and Mexico). In reshaping the novel, it softens some cutting edges. But the story is still tough, violent and essentially true to the book's central figure: a rugged individualist, desperately down on his luck...
...some unusual dividends. Its love story involves the hero with-of all people-his wife, and it is played with a passion that U.S. movies never seem to find in married couples who have school-age children. In the other woman (Patricia Neal), who gets nowhere with Morgan, the script fashions an acid, quip-studded portrait of a smart tart on the make...