Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tibet, according to the script, is a land of few but salient features: yaks, prayer flags, monks, and declining population. Yaks especially. Tibetans plow their fields with yaks, eat yak meat and cheese, light their lamps with yak butter, and drink fifty cups of yak butter tea a day. Yak is also the country's chief export--its fur makes Santa Clause beards. Lowell Thomas Jr. adds significantly now and then, "Yes, it's those old yaks again...
...speech, like most of the important ones in this clever melodrama, does not quite carry the intended conviction. The trouble seems to be that Bridget Boland, who wrote the script as well as the play (a hit in London) on which it is based, has perhaps not thought long enough about what makes people weak or strong, bad or good, split or whole. The interrogator in the picture has the resources of the state at his command. At no point, however, does the cardinal seem to get any help from the spiritual realm-indeed, there is little evidence that...
...that usually brings a lightning boost at the box office. On the screen, however, the picture provides much more than the cheap thrill it promises. The hero is a man who gets lost on the West Side of Chicago and does not bother to go looking for himself. The script, mild enough in comparison with Nelson Algren's cruel, powerful novel (TIME, Sept. 2, 1949) on which it is based, has nevertheless the crudeness of a thing scraped off some metropolitan sidewalk. But it has a human splendor, too-as the story of what happens...
Whitmore advises Vic that "a good Christian fights it off." Vic is staggered. "How?" Says Whitmore: "He gets another woman." Says Mature indignantly: "I call that real sneaky." He much prefers to leave the colonel in a bear pit for the Indians to find. However, the script hauls him out just in time to lead the final charge-an exceptionally bloody bore...
...Preston, playing the villain, reads his lines with an engaging military crispness and filches most of the moviegoer's sympathy from Hero Mature, who most of the time can hardly make himself understood. "I seen a boid," he keeps saying. "I seen a boid." Careful study of the script reveals that he is referring to a tribe of Indians called the Assiniboins...