Word: scripts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Director Tetzlaff has cannily short-circuited the improbabilities of the script by documentary-like handling of Bobby's home and environment. Bobby, particularly in his moments of open-mouthed terror, is a reminder that child cinemactors can be used effectively for other things than wringing hearts and tears...
...daughter, a boxer's wife and almost anybody's woman; her adopted daughter, a rather noisily religious girl; her chief roomer, a Magnolia Streetwalker; and enough men to illustrate the women's ways. Done right, it might have been enjoyably raffish. Since Playwright Batson's script was as tasteless and untidy as his people's lives, it was just unpleasantly dull...
...Films last night officially opened a student script-writing contest. Offering a 25-dollar war bond as first prize, the Harvard movieland colony also promises the winning author national attention through film and television channels...
Best Comedian: Groucho Marx in You Bet Your Life (ABC), "the only man on the air who can work without a script and bat off a brilliant succession of witticisms...
...that these camera effects are consciously "unusual," to an ordinary moviegoer they make the film memorable. The wildly shifting perspectives, the entirely new treatment of three-dimensional effects, the odd angles of approach, and the relation of lights and shadows contribute at least as much drama as the script...