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Robert L. Joseph adapted Boulle's noved for stage presentation, and he has not done an altogether satisfactory job. Too many of the characters are shockingly inconsistent, changing horses in midstream without even getting their feet wet. A number of extraneous considerations, notably the Negro problem in the South, are...
Face of a Hero opens with a vastly unsuccessful Prologue, done in mumbles and fake Southern accents. The play itself, based on what was obviously a magnificent conception by Pierre Boulle, at times repeats the hokiness and incomprehensibility of its opening scene. More often, however, it is entrancing, disturbing theater...
This is a brilliant theme, and it leaves you with the same empty and puzzled feeling that Boulle's The Bridge on the River Kwai produced. But there are many things wrong with this play. The deputy seemingly turns from a fearless cynic to a jellyfish with startling rapidity, but...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Adapted from Pierre (The Bridge over the River Kwai) Boulle's novel, Face of a Hero should at least prove the novelist's versatility as it switches from the Far East to small-town melodrama in the U.S. South. With Jack...
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN, by Pierre Boulle (281 pp.; Vanguard; $3.50), is another one of those novels that try to prove that good and kind Americans are really dumb Americans. Ironic Frenchman Boulle (The Bridge over the River Kwai) is too blasé to join forces openly with...