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...Last Holiday" is a remarkable film. It has abundant wit and abundant warmth; it has a wealth of acute characterization, and, woven skillfully among all three, it has profound tragedy. In short, "The Last Holiday" has about everything that a film needs, not the least of which is an excellent cast, headed by the versatile Alee Guinness...
...most ways, the story has been intelligently remolded for the screen. Working from the Brian Hooker translation, Scripter Carl Foreman has tightened the play's continuity-a good idea in any Cyrano production-without muffling its lyricism or wit. By dramatizing Rostand's offstage action and breaking each scene into bits small enough for the camera to digest, he has given the picture unusual mobility for an adaptation from the stage. Among the additions: a blade-by-blade filming of Cyrano's duel with the cutthroats...
...humor. Filmed five years ago by Preston (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) Sturges under the title The Sin of Harold Diddle-bock, it contains a fuzzy exposition of Writer-Director Sturges' economic philosophy ("This is a picture against security. It shows that trouble sharpens the wit and security dulls it"). As currently released by RKO's Howard Hughes, who ended a brief partnership with Sturges in 1946, Mad Wednesday has suffered some cutting and at least one lamentable addition, e.g., a talking cab horse...
...page of it is a model of the art of conducting unfair arguments. He was a highly original artist and the art lay in the transmuting of disruptive debate into a kind of classical Mozartian music. The plays date most seriously when they are debates, yet the verbal wit is perennially irresistible. There is no writer who so conspicuously and largely holds the whole social and political and intellectual life of a long, rich period of heresy and revolt in his hands, a revolt against everything from marriage to God-and back...
Died. George Bernard Shaw, 94, genius, playwright, wit, critic, Irishman, unsocial Socialist; of complications following a fall; in Ayot St. Lawrence, England...