Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pictures later, she all but missed getting the rich, sharp-tongued comedy part of Sylvia Fowler in Clare Boothe's The Women. Director George Cukor doubted that Ros was comedienne enough for the role. She met the challenge with her usual determination by acting one scene from the script in six different comedy ways. Cukor gave...
Producer-Director Norman Macdonnell, 36, describes Gunsmoke as "an adult western." Each week U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon (a combination Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp, played by Bill Conrad) meanders through a script about Dodge City & environs. The things that happen, while exciting, are seldom contrived for the sake of violence or plot; they happen because Dillon and the people of Dodge City circa 1880 are merely people who face human experiences...
Unhappy Man. In one recent script, Marshal Dillon arrives too late to prevent a lynching. Says Macdonnell: "We got tired of the standard save-'em-just-in-time show. As the play progresses, Matt learns that the guy who was lynched was completely innocent. He knows who the lynch leaders were, but what can he do? Nothing, not in those days, against those odds. So he leaves, without doing anything tangible. And yet, after he is gone, he has left behind in the minds of the townspeople a sense of tremendous shame for what they have done...
Gold Coasting, which has no spoken lines or narration, was written by Nelson Galassi. Mr. Galassi's script shimmers deftly over the problems of a sound track with music as the only rider. He has concentrated on making the film entertaining, but in doing so has minimized its value as a documentary on Adams House...
Unfortunately Galassi's direction is not so effective as his script. Too many of the scenes are taken from obvious angles; and in some cases he strains to bring guffaws from incidents worth only a smile. Supplementing Galassi's script is the music of M. Joel Mandelbaum which never hampers, but seldom helps the action on the screen...