Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting is so false and strained that the audience is jarred. Franklyn Spodak and Herbert Davis fare better as the intern and orderly. The problem the cast had with remembering lines has, hopefully, been solved by now--for until an actor knows where he is physically in the script, he cannot know where he is emotionally in the play...
...This honest and absorbing film has all the elements to make it a classic in its own time: a no-compromise script, sensitive direction and photography, and a matchless cast composed of Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas and Brandon de Wilde...
Then Bronston followed that up with an announcement that he will soon be filming the life of Cervantes, with a script by the Spanish Ambassador to Paraguay. Bronston's status is so high in Madrid at the moment that he could probably make a picture there called Remember the Maine...
Despite the script, however, the Harvard Summer School Players have made the New York Idea into a good, if not distinguished, show. Displaying the combination of youthful exuberance and careful polish that the community has come to expect of Loeb main stage productions, they exploit all possible comic situations, and, except for the last scene, keep the play moving at a pleasantly brisk pace...
Director George Hamlin has done an extremely skillful blocking job, and the motion does much to augment the thin script. Hamlin's actors move in sumptuous surroundings, designed by Donald Soule. The living room set is appropriately busy and garish, and the bedroom scene is almost worth the price of the ticket with its popsicle pink decor. Lewis Smith's excellent and correctly over-styled costumes complement the sets well...