Word: adaptors
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...treated as a mindless, soulless plaything by a priggish husband (Christopher Plummer). But while Actress Harris-kittenish, hectically gay and finally rebellious-could break out of Nora's plush Victorian prison, she could not wholly shake off the stilted language and obtrusive 19th century stagecraft which Adaptor James Costigan took over from Ibsen...
...affairs, thinker, dude and cocksure authority on everything from high finance to socialism. As his embattled mother-in-law, Hollywood's Thelma (Rear Window) Ritter had a fine, acerb time of it sticking pins in the balloons of his pretensions. Unfortunately, Director Sidney Lumet and Adaptor Ronald Alexander chose to dwell on the resemblances between The Show-Off and The Honeymooners instead of the differences...
...Adaptor Valency's English version is excellent prose. But dramatically, Ondine suffers from too much prose-or at any rate, too little poetry. Virgil Thomson's evocative incidental music suggests a tale better adapted to opera or ballet. For, however ironic and sophisticated, Giraudoux has not brought a new dimension, or even any very striking overtones, to an old story. What the tale gains in philosophical embroideries it more than loses in fairy-tale magic and lyrical feeling. It seems neither simple nor complex enough; in a certain prettiness and lifelessness, it suggests not the court magician...
However, what has been unavoidably 'lost' in the filming is greatly outbalanced by the production of Jean Delannoy, the director and adaptor. M. Dellannoy is also producer of the Cocteau films, and like them, he has furnished this one with an excellent score by George Aurie...
Action-hungry U.S. cinemagoers may get restless waiting for the climax. As a matter of fact, the picture drags on too long after its climax, frittering away the power it has built up. Despite these shortcomings, Director and Co-Adaptor Jean Delannoy has a picture that he can be proud of. Against the crisp beauty of Alpine backgrounds, caught with a sharp pictorial eye, he has also caught the sorrow and frustration of the picture's real setting-the shadowy corners of the human heart...