Word: scriptful
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...time, Playwright Anderson prudently goes at her sidelong, writing a play within a play. He portrays actors rehearsing, on a bare stage, a play about Joan; and he laces their drama with hers by having the director (nicely played by Sam Wanamaker) and the leading lady squabble over the script's delineation of the Maid...
...under the weight of whole sections of braying saxophones, had to support only a trumpet, a trombone, and a clarinet beside the rhythm section, and this unique instrumentation, reminiscent of the old time marching bands of Edmond's younger days, evoked a warm, informal flavor which no amount of script arranging by pianist Charlie Bateman, seemed able to eradicate...
...free verse (Glory for Me, a Literary Guild dividend selection). Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, whose knack for smooth, talkable prose has won him three Pulitzer Prizes and a place in the history books as the writer of Franklin Roosevelt's war speeches, was hired to do the script. The story was one which appealed to able Director William Wyler (Wuthering Heights, The Memphis Belle), who confesses that his 3½ years in the Air Forces gave him a few personal reconversion problems...
...crowded as the busiest Balzac novel with people, city noises, brawling and lovemaking (see BOOKS). The setting, too, is Balzacian: the sprawling plot tries to keep up with half a dozen leading characters as they move through 1848 Paris. But the film's makers, using their own script, lacked Balzac's gift for tying up dangling ends and giving a finished story some look of significance...
...Dark the Night (Columbia) is a low-budget whodunit that almost succeeds in making the big time. In spite of a wobbly script and a cast of unknown players, Director Joseph H. Lewis has turned out a neat little job. It is more entertaining than most of the better-advertised movies it will get paired with on double-feature bills...