Word: scripting
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...that can be said in criticism of Green is that his part is not large enough. As Major-General Stanley, he gets several of the best songs in the play, but both his speaking and the physical exertions for which he is justly famous are circumscribed by the script...
...Rank Empire two years ago because, says Launder, "the organization was heading for more centralization and more control . . . we were for decentralization." They even give each other plenty of leeway. When one of them gets an idea for a movie, he consults closely with the other, then does the script and direction himself, drawing freely on his partner's advice...
...necessarily overworked wife. Saying relatively little, and then only in the short and sometimes near-obscene Hemingway phrases, Garfield gives one of his best performances. Very soon after the opening he has so well accustomed himself and his audience to the character and personality called for by the script that the picture has an almost documentary effect...
Patricia Neal is equally well cast in her part; her performance is technically perfect. The script gives her no opportunity for explosive dramatics, yet she manages to express her love for her husband and family, and her continual worry about them, without having to resort to stage tricks. She walks into rooms without making entrances, she holds her voice within the small, unexciting range of normal people. Although Phyllis Thaxter overplays the "other woman" in more than one scene, the minor characters generally succeed in their primary task: they are good enough to fit smoothly into the film's supporting...
Perhaps Weld and Curtiz intended that the photography not be an outstanding feature of the picture. There are no special angle shots, nothing unusual. Thus the acting and the script stand out so much more for their excellence...