Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manner of broadcast indicates, to us at least, that she is possibly being forced, either at gun point or by threat of life, to read the prepared script. The agonizing speed with which she delivers it indicates she has had very little time, if any, to rehearse the script. Her pronunciation is very Midwestern...
Fortunately, Director Lean's sure technique keeps most of the picture crackling, and the Nicholas Phipps-Stanley Haynes script gives him plenty to work with. His camera angles make a pair of cocoa cups enormously intriguing, endow the villain's silver-knobbed cane with a menacing, meaningful life of its own. He cuts back & forth between the lovers and shots of a frenetic Scottish reel to give a seduction scene a surprisingly erotic effect. His trial sequence, neatly dovetailing flashbacks of testimony into the lawyers' summations, is a fresh, economical way to film courtroom action. Many...
...listeners from one mood or scene into another, fast. In the trade, such six-or eight-bar snatches of music are called cues or "bridges." Some radio stations use canned movie-type music; others employ would-be Wagners to grind out poor-man's leitmotives according to script...
Director Mark Robson's accent on gloom, the script's blurry counterfeit of the novel's hero and Actor Granger's lack of depth and force all combine to produce an effect which is neither dramatic nor provocative, but merely overpoweringly monotonous...
Neither he nor Cecil B. DeMille (urbanely played by Cecil B. DeMille), to whom she brings the script, can bring himself to puncture her confident illusion that her return to the screen is imminent. While she undergoes a strict course of beauty treatments in preparation for her triumph, Holden sneaks away regularly to collaborate on his own script with a good friend's fiancée (Nancy Olson), a reader at Paramount. He and the girl fall in love. But by that time, he has become so enmeshed in the Sunset Boulevard snare that he cannot escape...