Word: scriptful
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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McCoy springs few surprises. A trim, energetic man at 56, he leads his seven-man band through Hot Lips, Basin Street Stomp, and other items of Dixieland "sugar stuff." The arrangements are as predictable as a TV script, and the sound is unexceptional. With his horn in his right hand and his left hand flashing an outsized diamond as he carves out the rhythms, McCoy demonstrates that he can still make a trumpet caterwaul, growl, wail, or punch out notes of brassy clarity...
...library of essences" compiled by "Osmologist" Hans Laube, who perfected the Smell-O-Vision process - are on the whole no more accurate or credible than those employed by AromaRama, but at least they don't stink so loud. Moreover, the gimmick is backed up by a witty script that at times owes as much to Don Miguel de Cervantes as it does to Scriptwriter William Roos. The Todd 70 Process camera is used to flashy effect, especially when it is mounted on a helicopter. And Hero Elliott is a remarkably sly and appealing comedian. Released as a hard-ticket...
...piece of professional entertainment, The Last Voyage is plainly superior to the picture it was patterned after, the British version of the loss of the Titanic. The script takes advantage of its fictional freedom, as the script of A Night to Remember (TIME, Jan. 5, 1959) could not, to focus its interest and excite its pace. The scenes of destruction are particularly explicit and dramatic: most of the film was shot aboard the old Ile de France just before she was junked in Japan. And yet, in its total effect, The Last Voyage lacks an element essential in all great...
...five cities (Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland), the debut of Westinghouse Broadcasting's Reading Out Loud series proved to be a small clear voice speaking strongly in answer to television's critics, who have often accused TV of destroying the art of reading. There was no script-just the poet reading, sometimes with wonderful insight, sometimes in a poem-killing singsong. The children were seen responding, sometimes with a joy of understanding, sometimes with the bored and nervous smiles of polite scorn...
...sets are fun, and properly improbable. Not many of the situations in the script can be found in the book, but Scenarist Walter (Titanic) Reisch has at times improved on the master himself. Producer Brackett's dialogue has a Vernal freshness and LIFE Science Writer Lincoln (The World We Live In) Barnett, retained as a technical adviser, has shrewdly inserted his scientific facts so as not to impair the general implausibility. On the whole, the film seems sure to enhance Author Verne's reputation as the best dead writer Hollywood ever had. In the last five years three...