Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PRICE by Arthur Miller...
...started to get on track when the War Production Board decided to go basically with one type of synthetic, Buna-S, made from butadiene and styrene; Standard Oil of New Jersey held the U.S. patent rights for Buna-S. Production goals were set at 800,000 tons a year. Arthur Newhall, a former rubber-company executive, was appointed rubber coordinator, directing the whole program...
THIS IS NOT A MOVIE for the hypercritical. The sloppiness of Arthur Hiller's direction becomes apparent at the end, when you can look back and survey the ruins he's made of a basically funny idea. If little inconsistencies cause you to cringe-the same shot repeated several times in the course of a car chase, or subplots that never get resolved- The In-Laws may bring on a seizure...
...Director Arthur Hiller (Silver Streak) keeps the cast in tight control, and that is all he does. He misedits the slapstick sequences, bathes every scene in pasty white light and seems incapable of placing the camera in its proper position. Then again, maybe it is just as well that there is not a first-rate film maker behind The In-Laws. Had someone directed this movie for all it is worth, the audience might never get up from the floor...
...evidently something was not strong enough. In the evening, after the visiting architects had left the arena, a tremendous rainstorm hit the city, dumping 4 in. of rain in 30 minutes. Shortly after it began, Arthur LaMaster, the supervisor on duty in the deserted building, noticed water pouring down two sides of the $250,000 Scoreboard, which was suspended from the center of the ceiling. Then he heard a roar "like a pounding of a sledge hammer on concrete." The 18-ton scoreboard came crashing down, and more than half of the arena's roof collapsed. Twisted steel, broken...