Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conspirator (M-G-M). The Sally Benson script, based on the Humphrey Slater novel, is more a study of stupidity than treason. Robert Taylor, a wooden-faced major in a British Guards regiment, has been a Red agent since he was 15, apparently because he enjoyed his conspiratorial adolescence in Ireland. He breaks party discipline by marrying Elizabeth Taylor, an American visitor to London, who is portrayed as vain, vapid and addicted to double-takes. Since even his addlepated wife soon catches on that he is a traitor, the party orders Robert to kill her. On a duck hunt...
Finally David Tutacv deserves high praise for his excellent direction, especially for his perservering search for interesting "business" not in the script, and for retaining the comic vitality of the original play...
Rhythm of the Relay. The realistic approach is often a sound-man's nightmare. Up to five men are needed to handle the 300-odd sound effects on each show. Webb's trickiest piece of realism came when the script called for a long-distance phone call from Los Angeles to Fountain Green, Utah. "We actually placed the call and recorded it. We got all the line clicks of the trunk lines, the rhythm of the operators as they moved the call from one relay point to another. You can't fake stuff like the authentic...
Excellent performances by Dailey and Anne Baxter, as well as a supporting cast that includes Walter Brennan and Connie Gilchrist, bring out all the fun in a deft script by Mary Loos and Richard Sale (When Willie Comes Marching Home...
...suspects is nearly as intriguing as the idea that motivates it. Though much of the film has been shot against teeming backgrounds in San Francisco and Los Angeles, D. 0. A. illustrates that nothing is much help to second-rate actors trying to find their way through a Confusing script...