Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tchin-Tchin owes more to Actors Anthony Quinn and Margaret Leighton than its script can quite repay. Trying to pick up the pieces of mutually shattered marriages, this sad-amusing, absurdly incongruous pair find that the fragments are not worth keeping...
...first few minutes you feel a little uneasy. It's all so familiar. Admiral being given an award for service. Sits down to tell his story. Bystanders kind of talk in unison, mumble questioningly on cue. Corny serious--you can see the script in big letters in your mind. "My family has been in nautical circles ever since we can remember," says Alec Guinness thoughtfully. And the scene dissolves into an Alec Guinness caveman paddling his primitive canoe-thing around in little circles...
...script, written with considerable address by Playwright Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons), foreshortens but does not falsify the story as Lawrence told it. Sent to Arabia to scout the forces rising in revolt against Constantinople, Lieutenant Lawrence (O'Toole) impetuously leads a party of picked men across a notoriously impassable waste that is known as "the sun's anvil," and seizes the seaward-sighted cannon of Aqaba from the rear. Stunned, the Turkish garrison surrenders. Startled, General Allenby (Hawkins) offers the young hothead guns and gold, and before long Lawrence and his Arabs are blowing...
...then the script does not catch it either. People who knew Lawrence did not catch it. Lawrence himself did not seem to know what it was. Perhaps it did not exist...
Ungentle Love. Much of the script is by Poet Carl Sandburg. It is the result of four years' research by Sandburg, Stevens and others, exhaustively noting details of Biblical Palestine's season and weather, topography and political geography. Stevens carries around a huge black volume that contains seven major translations of the words of Jesus. He may try out three or four in a single scene to see which sounds best when spoken and recorded. The original script-Fulton Oursler's best-selling book-has long since been submerged and forgotten. Only its gaudy title remains, which...