Word: scriptful
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...designers and cameraman show an unusually vivid sense of period, place, mood, and the immediate, living moment. As a result, some of the picture seems to be happening for the first time, whereas the run of movies are mere illustrations of what happened in a script. But in spite of all the history that leaks in around the edges, this is essentially a routine western, easy enough to take and just as easy to let alone...
...first with himself, then with other network brains, finally with the writer. After weeks of interviewing ("I wanted someone who knew the inner workings of the Communist Party-I didn't want him to write from textbooks"), Saudek chose 34-year-old Morton Wishengrad to do the script. Wishengrad is a radio writer who also happened to be an anti-Communist veteran of David Dubinsky's successful fight against the Commies in the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union...
...June 1, when work on the script had just begun, the show received a sizzling salute from the Daily Worker: "An inaccurate, slanderous, and distorted series...
...becomes his front in a particularly ugly plot for blackmail, leading to murder. Thanks chiefly to Ann Todd's able and sympathetic performance, it is possible to guess that essentially this is a study of the disintegration, through sexual passion, of a morally delicate character. But the script can never say as much-still less examine the facts. Its only sufficient explanation of the widow is that she is all but certifiably gullible in matters of business and the heart. And since she is the heroine, there can't be too much emphasis on that, either...
...backstreets of other countries, where he scours the sleazier dives and nightclubs for not-so-fresh material ("Paris is not the same since they closed The Sphinx,"* he says). Recently returned from a tour of Vienna lowlife, he is at work on a new thriller and a movie script (The Third Man) for Producers David O. Selznick and Sir Alexander Korda. His slumming adventures are received by his family with mixed feelings. His white-haired old mother very naturally writes them off as nonexistent, says firmly of the use to which her son puts his escapades: "Graham must imagine...