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...wept that he should turn out to be "nothin' but a Gay Lombardo"-to which Master of Ceremonies Joe Kelly, to make sure everyone got it, rejoined: "You mean a gay Lothario, don't you?" And so on and so on, no chestnuts barred in a script whose humor formula runs like this: "I just bought a farm." "Where is it?" "Hawaii." "I'm fine, how are you? But where's this farm?" "Hawaii." "I'm fine, but where's this farm...
...play straightened out this artful tangle in the only way to avoid sentimentality or unpremeditated farce-Rims crawled back through his wife's bedroom window. Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein's otherwise brilliant script would have done well to follow the play. Instead it sends Father Halevy into unsuitable heroics, makes Rims flex his moral muscle, resolve to fight on to victory because his wife is going to have a baby...
...Napoleonic cra when the book "Swiss Family Robinson" was written or the Hitlerian cra when Hollywood put it on celluloid, the story still holds good. True, it creaks in sports. The more lurid parts of Wyss's work had to be soft-pedaled and even then the final script was bogged down with verbiage as thick as the tropical vegetation. But such vivid scenes as the hurricane, the landing, the building of the tree house are still there. The fascinating escapism of the whole idea carries the picture over the rough spots and lands it safely among the better pictures...
Tradition has always pictured Verdi as a sunny oldster dandling children on his knee. In "The Life of Giuseppe Verdi", a script-writer's florid fancy and an actor's indecisive acting are diligently at work portraying bearish youth mellowing into crochety old age. Inconclusive in its characterization, the picture meanders shapelessly through the minor crises in the composer's life, in a disjointed course that lacks both interest and conviction. A weak-kneed attempt to build up Verdi as a nationalist idol bogs down in conventional heroics. In a last desperate effort at unity, the director drags...
Back in the U. S. Director Kline, fed up with warring Europe, never wanted to see it again. While they projected a film about Mexican Indians, for which John Steinbeck will do the script, Kline and Hackensmid cut and edited Lights Out in Europe...