Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...mellifluous voice is the chief asset of Richard Conrad, who plays Frederick. He also displays a slightly satirical and detached attitude toward the script, shared to a lessor extent by the rest of the company, and far preferable to the D'Oyly Carte embalming job. Occasionally he lapsed into honeyed blandness, but he usually kept his acting good enough to let his singing make him a first-rate performer...
Bundy said the 10 students in his seminar had split into five groups and prepared studies on individual presidents for him. He doubted, however, that more than a few specific phrases contributed by the students reached the final script...
...story of Weddings is less important than the way it is told. Director Engel has attempted a sort of "candid cinema,' in which the principles of art are continuously (and sometimes unfortunately) subordinated to the flow of life. He often throws away his working script' encourages his actors to improvise. Then he moves around them with a portable camera and tracks the action as it develops, catching this, missing that, taking his chances and riding his luck...
...Happened in Broad Daylight. A slick but effective suspense film written by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt (reversing the usual process, he drew his novel The Pledge from the script), in which a psychopath, brilliantly acted by Gert Frobe, and a police inspector glide through frightening shadows...
Sunrise at Campobello. Writer Dore Schary occasionally aims his script at the cheap seats in this adaptation of his Broadway hit, but the film is a craftsmanlike job, and Ralph Bellamy's characterization of Franklin Roosevelt is excellent...