Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real colonel by now." The most ambiguous figure of all is Giuseppe-Bardone-General della Rovere. The character-delineation of an imposter is hard to begin with, but the ambiguity of de Sica's role is compounded by the fact that Rossellini and his three script writers do not seem sure whether Bardone is more to be pitied or more to be censured. Rather than mingling in cowardice and loneliness in one man at one time. Rossellini and his writers inconsistently portray first a coward, then a pathetic outsider, then a coward again with the result that the parts...
...script gives little dimension to the characters, it must be said that the actors impart quite a bit to the roles themselves, and the level of acting is generally quite high. Some of the minor characters are cliches (witness the sadistic, perverted-looking SS officer), but most are acceptable. Gregory Peck, as usual, is better at looking rugged than anything else, but David Niven turns out an excellent performance as a college professor with a talent for blowing things up. And Anthony Quinn, as a Cretan guerilla, is in consistently top form. His bit in the interrogation scene should...
...script, on the whole, is the weakest element of the picture, but Scriptwriter Inge can hardly be blamed for it. "I hate a play," he once remarked, "that tells me what to think." He must hate this...
...competent script and sharp direction make a pleasant political comedy out of Novelist Wirt Williams' variation on the American dream: a Louisiana doxy marries a gubernatorial candidate she meets on the job, and winds up first lady of the state...
Segal, who has cut himself off from New York calls and is hibernating over Ph.D. generals, says he will begin revising the script "as soon as the orals are over next week and I get a night's sleep." In its present form, the show runs only 100 minutes. "We're going to add five musical numbers, choreography, and fix up the second act to bring out the full satire," he reported...