Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture's humor is as broad as its action is fast. The script is virtually actor-proof: all the characters are kept so busy ducking bullets, knives and pottery that they rarely get a chance to deliver a line, let alone muff one. But beauteous Yvonne de Carlo has competent support from strong-armed Rod Cameron and from a taciturn Indian who says "Ho" instead...
...tells how he was weaned on mint juleps, drinks only from a Dixie cup, sees only Ann Sothern movies, shuns Ann Sheridan, never listens to Mr. & Mrs. North, avoids the Lincoln Tunnel. His hat is a Kentucky derby. He naturally hates compasses for the way they point. Typical script...
...first teamed up, not to write but to rewrite a new book for Anything Goes, which subsequently became an Ethel Merman smash hit. After two more musicomedy successes, they pined for words without music, set about dramatizing Life With Father. The script aroused so little enthusiasm that Alfred Lunt, Roland Young, Walter Huston all turned down the title role. Lindsay himself finally took the part...
Director William Dieterle has frankly set out to pull the customers' heart strings like so much taffy. This time his expert hand has slipped. His craftsmanship is submerged in an inept script. Even Claude Rains, generally a likable and competent actor, has script trouble. Referred to throughout the film as a wise and witty caricaturist, Mr. Rains's caricatures look worse than mediocre, and he has been given nothing either wise or witty...
...Script of Christ, which for some reason seems to have been dictated in the inspirational style of the late Aimee Semple McPherson. In the other, the book's title piece, Shelley proclaims the news that "GOD IS." There is also a sort of undertaker's garland of poems written since Shelley "passed over." Many of them, like From the Death of the Skylark, are unfortunately fragments. Sample...