Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effort to be aesthetic as well as amusing, Ivy throws in some unrelated art touches. Some of these like the history of a block of ice from the delivery truck to a glass of tea are fatuous and only chop away at the movie's strongest leg, the script...
...greatest problem in the script was apparently to keep the lovers apart long enough to have a movie. Piper Laurie's sense of guilt for her mother's death in childbirth is the shaky scaffolding that holds her un-swerving love for her degenerate brother who hates the gambler. Under her brother's influence, Laurie marries an old friend she does not love, who later turns out to be an embezzler and a wife deserter. A neuroses shedding climax in front of her mother's portrait releases Laurie's guilt, and minutes later she winds up safely abroad a riverboat...
...more important, searching close-up shots of the principals, Showing the great properties of the movie medium, the close-ups endow the scene in which Miss Waters sings a comforting hymn with a beauty which only the camera could capture. Yet even the close-ups sometimes betray the script, making, lines aimed at the balcony of a play house seem unnecessary and over-wrought...
...Leslie (Lili) Caron brings a fresh, bright-eyed personality to the role of the young governess. And pensive Pier (Teresa) Angeli, with her child's face and Garbo-like eyes, gives the part of the trapeze artist a passionate sensitivity that is only vaguely hinted at in the script and direction...
...Ashore (Columbia) is an amiable little cinemusical with pretty girls, Technicolored scenery, several jingly songs-and practically no screenplay. The slapdash script follows three sailors (Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Ray McDonald) through their shore leave at Catalina. By the fadeout, at a lavish Polynesian beach party, they have each found a girl (Barbara Bates, Jody Lawrence, Peggy Ryan). This is the sort of picture in which the characters have such names as Moby Dickerson and Gay Knight. All Ashore is at its brightest when it gives sawed-off Mickey Rooney a chance to hoof, sing, do assorted pratfalls...