Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...script (which he is said to have written) has a charming, blank-verse hauteur that just possibly may be a bit asinine-but the direction saves the day by insisting on a witty, natural reading. Fairbanks has also inflicted an extreme lilt on the rhythm of the film-a lilt that would be annoying if it were not necessary to keep the lame plot marching along...
...praise and blame for a daring effort belong to Dudley Nichols. O'Neill, an old friend, would not permit the film to be made unless Nichols produced, directed and wrote the script. All credit for risking $2,250,000 in the venture belongs to RKO, which may have some trouble getting its money back. As one critic put it: "Average moviegoers are going to talk back to this picture...
...most ambitious, My Father's House (Kline & Levin), is the first full-length work of movie fiction to be made in Palestine. Story and script are by Meyer Levin; direction is by Herbert Kline (The Forgotten Village); most of the actors are amateurs. The film is the story of a European boy who gradually comes to realize that he will never again see his parents, who were killed by the Nazis. With the shock of this realization, he regresses into neurotic infancy and is slowly healed by the knowledge that all Israel is "his father's house." Much...
...noted playwright will talk to members of the BDC, their guests and all holders of tickets to the current production, in Sanders Theatre at 4 o'clock. After reading selections from the script of the latest play. "A Streetcar Named Desire," which opened in Boston this week, Williams will discuss his work in the theatre and answer questions about poetic drama...
...Vienna to California, affording many an opportunity for many a stock shot. Its sentiments are eminently correct for the movies, with one exception. When the hero first meets the heroine and her mother, he goes briefly for the mother-but that angle could easily be cut out of the script. Love finally conquers all as The Bomb falls on Hiroshima. Running time: 90 minutes...