Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undoubtedly, an interesting movie. Beginning with an unusual and active prologue, "The Desert Fox" flashes back for complete coverage of Rommel's life from the British breakthrough at EI Alamein to his suicide in 1945. James Mason, as the general, succeeds in portraying the character called for by the script. It almost appears possible for a man to be at once a hard, supremely competent Field Marshal and a confused, incredibly native politician...
Besides the Rathbone script, the program will include a speech by Mrs. Roosevelt, who leaves for Paris next week as part of the United States delegation to the Sixth U.N. General Assembly...
...plan. Joined by units of the French and British armies, they prepared to launch a counterattack. Observed by SHAPE Commander Eisenhower, fresh from NATO's impressive "Operation Counterthrust" (TIME, Oct. 1) on the northwest German plain, the invaders will be repulsed, as they always are when the script calls...
...trusted friend, Producer Gabriel (Pygmalion, Caesar and Cleopatra) Pascal, who had to stretch the two-acter, Androcles and the Lion, to feature length. Pascal finally wangled a grudging O.K. from the trustees of Shaw's estate to raise the alteration rate to 25%, and fattened up the script with lines borrowed from Shaw's own preface. With the biggest barrier hurdled, Androcles was only two weeks behind schedule at RKO last week...
...brings a brooding intensity to the role of Rommel, sharply points up the contrast between his brilliance in the field and his uncertainty in public life. Unfortunately for the pace and excitement of the movie, Rommel is shown too seldom on the battlefield, and then only in defeat. The script, by Producer-Writer Nunnally Johnson, has the competence of journalistic history, but most of the excitement is packed into the picture's opening moments, during an ill-fated British Commando raid on Rommel's North African headquarters...