Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer's pride demands that I deny to you that the script of Splendor in the Grass [Oct. 13] was "heavily edited" by Director Elia Kazan. This frequent criticism is leveled against him unfairly...
Fortunately. Bronston's bust enjoys one solid virtue: a script precisely organized and competently prosed by Playwright Philip (Anna Lucasta) Yordan. who has often quite sensitively reconciled the grandeurs of the King James version with the need for a fresh, contemporary tone. After noisily establishing the Romans in Palestine. Scenarist Yordan moves swiftly and synoptically through the Gospels: The Nativity, The Flight into Egypt. The Massacre of the Innocents; Christ's boyhood, baptism and temptation in the desert; Salome's Dance and the murder of John the Baptist; the Sermon on the Mount, the triumphal procession...
Although Jacques Prevert's script unfolds the details of a murder, it is very unlike a conventional whodunit. The title of the film assigns guilt, the crime itself does not occur until very near the end, and Lange confesses to the first man he sees. Renoir spends the bulk of his time painting a genre scene of one small area in the Paris printing district. Life flows hectically between the publishing house of Batala and the streets. Renoir's photography seems to tear away the facades of buildings and to make the entire fauborg one stage. A fine example...
...Mielziner's set is a comic masterpiece of interior decrepitude, a kind of termite's vision of heaven, dominated by a rotting floor-to-ceiling stairway, a fit home, as one character puts it, for "the bride of Dracula." The set speaks, even if the script only stutters...
...College (CBS), although the situation itself is both sad and saccharine: a widow in her 50s enrolls as a freshman at U.C.L.A. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who also played opposite her in Broadway's A Majority of One, helps a bit, but nothing can be done with a script that sets its sights along "the hippopotamus of a right triangle.'' And Car 54, Where Are You? is a question that does not deserve an answer. An NBC show written by Nat Hiken (who wrote Sergeant Bilko), it lionizes two New York cops named Toody and Muldoon...