Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touched off the military revolt in Algiers. Today he indignantly insists that "there was no plot, or that sort of stupid stuff." But a moment later he pulls out a copy of a book spelling out the details of the Algiers plot and, with a chuckle, points to the author's inscription: "To Jacques Soustelle, the principal architect of the miraculous days in Algiers...
Novelist Douglas himself dismissed his ludicrous situations and pasteboard characters as "tiresomely decent," and moviegoers might have been spared this whole hodgepodge had the author lived. The year he finished Fisherman, he said: "I'm just an irascible old man who has written a book and wants it to stay a book! I don't want the movies fumbling with it. It's too much for the movies...
...Scapegoat(DuMaurier-Guinness; M-G-M), based on Daphne du Maurier's bestselling 1957 novel, is a half-serious attempt to articulate on film some notions that fascinated the author: "I wanted to discover, for myself, what happened to a man who was no longer himself. Would he, assuming the identity of another, take on the sins and the burdens and the emotions of the [other] or would his own hidden secret self become released in the other's image and so take charge...
...score the movie succeeds where the book failed: the suspense turns not on Whether the scapegoat will reveal himself but on how he will handle himself in each situation. And moviegoers have the best of Author du Maurier's bestseller props: intrigue, murder, romance, another haunted Manderley setting, and a generous helping of hokum. As the author herself commented on her work: "This time I have gone the whole...
...whole punctuational arsenal; and others, especially in epistolary usage, seem never to have heard of anything but the dash--unless it be the triple exclamation point! And even such a splendid and important novel as Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth is marred by horrible punctuation, particularly the author's evidently insatiable passion for the period...