Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy result of the script shortage, desperate TVmen have dipped gingerly into the classics and come up with productions-of Ibsen, and Rostand, Pirandello, Chekhov and Shakespeare. Studio One pioneered with adaptations of Turgenev's Smoke, Henry James's The Ambassadors, Sholom Ansky's The Dybbuk, and has also done a modern-dress Julius Caesar and a Grand Guignol version of Macbeth. Other shows dramatize news stories, historical anecdotes, biographies...
This word game Kelly plays is one of the most sparking points in the strip. He finds all the oddities of the English language and puns with them until he has formed a new language for his creature creations. From Deacon Mushrat, who speaks in Old English script to pup dog who pontificates on poltergeist, each varmint adds his own grammar...
Director Robert Parrish serves this rehash expertly, pointing up the tart flavor and inventive trimmings of William Bowers' script. In his detective's masquerade as an out-of-town hoodlum roughing his way into the favor of waterfront racketeers. Academy Award Winner Broderick (All the King's Men) Crawford plays a tough guy's tough guy with engagingly sardonic humor...
Dave Gregory will lead the varsity, and the script, as usual, pits the Crimson captain against one of the top runners of the East, Stan Smiley. Supporting Gregory will be Hal Gerry, Dave Cairns, Emil San Souci, Hugh Maguire, and Bruce Phillips...
...hysterical, the onlookers are likely to sympathize with Kowalski's growing impatience. As a result of keying his action too high and throwing out too much emotion at the audience, Kazan has produced a film that is always exciting, but that in the end is less moving than its script...