Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tobacco Road (adapted by Jack Kirkland from Erskine Caldwell's novel, produced by Mr. Kirkland) first opened on Broadway in 1933, ran for 3,182 performances, played two return engagements thereafter. Now it is playing a third, with a Negro cast. Enough work has been done on the script to take care of the new racial slant; more work, indeed, than would seem to have been done on the production. A road-company cast is indulging in low (even for Tobacco Road) comedy capers. But this Tobacco Road is less alarming in itself than as a portent of even...
...fall of 1940, a letter in old-fashioned script arrived at the offices of Philadelphia's old (1856) tool firm, Fayette R. Plumb, Inc. "Please send me two of your small axes," requested the writer, "and if cost any more for it write and let me known as soon as possible what I owed to you . . . Trusting this find you in good condition ... I am your unknown true friend in Pitcairn Island." The letter was signed by Ivan E. Christian, a descendant of Fletcher Christian, leader of the mutiny on the Bounty...
...alled "Project 109" until a title is found, will be short comedy on the difficulties of studying, accenting the struggles of a student against distractions. The script, written by Richard D. MacCann 4G, requires much of the action to be pantomime and calls for an unseen narrator...
...Films is already making plans for another production, larger than "Project 109," to be produced next Fall. The script for this production is now in the process of revision, and all pre-shooting work is expected to end by this spring...
Part of this is due to a good script and fine direction. Stark's campaign speeches are the best example. They clearly show the transition from the rough, sincere desire of a man to serve the public to a skilled politician's desire to please the folks at home. Up for Academy Award recognition, along with Crawford, are John Ireland and Mercedes McCambridge for their portrayal of Governor Stark's cynical hatchetman and hatchetwoman. They should get their Oscars, too. And the same goes for director Robert Rosson for weaving a fast-moving narrative, a penetrating character analysis...