Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Robert Cedric Sherriff (Journey's End) had a modest proposal for the British Treasury. Sherriff, whose new play, Home at Seven, was netting him ?3,600 a year, had just had an offer of ?10,000 ($28,000) to write a script...
...weeks ago Sherriff approached the Treasury, offered to write the Hollywood script for a nominal ?100, provided that the remaining ?9,900 went to the Society of Antiquaries for the excavation of some Roman ruins in Norfolk. Said Sherriff: "It is neither comforting nor does it make one proud to reflect that one is providing so many free sets of false teeth ... to the people of Britain ... I would gladly work for next to nothing if it would produce something for the nation I could feel I had a hand...
Five girls passed the tests and will be cast as soon as Project 109's script is returned in final form. Virginia Carroll '51, Judy Jaeger '53, Marie Beth Walch '53, Ann Strang '53, and Nancy Cussack of Lasell Junior College will compete for the major female role, "the heartless girl friend...
...film's script is an unusually accurate transcription of the original drama. Only two real changes are made from the theater version. First, more obvious emphasis is given to the impressive old quote from the Petition of Rights, "Let Right be done!" Every major character over 13 years old solemnly repeats the phrase at some time or other to make sure that the point of the picture is never in doubt. Second, several scenes inside the House of Commons and in court were added to the original Winslow home setting: both for variety and so that Robert Donat might fully...
...minor characters, from the lesser Win-slows to the handwriting expert at the trial, are unusually fine. Director Anthony Asquith had taken advantage of this good casting, an excellent script, and judicious amounts of inspiring London Symphony Orchestra music, to turn a much-praised play into an exciting, fast-moving movie...