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...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'Idiote, artfully blends bedroom farce and murder mystery. Julie Harris brings her gamin charm to the role of a chambermaid who wakes up in beds she never made...
...Shot in the Dark, adapted for Broadway by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit L'Idiote, combines bedroom farce with murder mystery. The sex and suspense are unevenly blended, but a sharpshooter cast, headed by Julie Harris and Walter Matthau, drills the evening acceptably full of laughs...
...Greene's The Complaisant Lover, in which the author grins rather than glooms over sin; the play, a solid London hit, involves a love triangle, with a cuckolded dentist at the base (Nov. 1). Julie Harris will appear as a chambermaid employed by a French millionaire in Marcel Achard's The Naked Truth. Playwright John Patrick (The Teahouse of the August Moon) returns to Broadway with Everybody Loves Opal, starring Eileen Heckart...
Patate (adapted by Irwin Shaw from the French of Marcel Achard) was a big Paris hit, though nothing in the quickly folding Broadway version seemed to link it with Paris at all. It is a tale of two men, a heel who has grown rich and his down-at-heel patate or fall guy. When Patate learns that the heel has become his adopted daughter's lover, he at last has a chance to even up the score; but as top dog, he proves the worst flop...
Irwin Shaw has taken Patate from the French of Marcel Achard, and he would be well advised to put it back. As a laugh show, this "New Comedy" suffers from a paucity of laughs. And since the script is not a gimmick adorned by gags, in the fashion of most American comedies, but a closely plotted dramatic whole, there seems very little possibility of its being rewritten and rescued by skillful gagsmithing...