Word: cameraful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Hamer's restrained direction and Paul Beeson's camera work are fine. The film's only major fault is the screenplay, written by Hamer from an adaptation by Gore Vidal. It's a pity Vidal wasn't allowed to do the whole job. Hamer's script leaves a number of loose ends and unclear motivations; and the denouement is both trite and inexcusably abrupt. But the picture is worth seeing for its performances...
...jeers in England at the discovery that a London public relations firm had been hired to boost the Premier's stock there. Other Japanese fear a disaster like the visit to London of Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama, who insisted on making a TV appearance. When, with the camera on him, he was shown a box of Japanese ball bearings that copied a well-known British brand and was asked what he had to say, Fujiyama indignantly stalked out, while his agitated aide cried: "Japan has been insulted...
...radio signals that tell the hurricane watchers how fast the storm is moving, its pressure, etc. A second gadget still under test is a big, inflated sphere that will ride the surface ocean waves in the eye, broadcasting similar information at sea level. Still a third promising device: a camera-carrying rocket that flies high enough to bring down pictures of an entire hurricane, several hundred miles across, give weathermen their first complete look at a big blow...
...Story. Audrey Hepburn, as a Roman Catholic nun who decides that it is love of self rather than love of God that has driven her to-and from-her calling, is too antiseptic in her performance, but the story is a natural and the camera work almost dazzlingly beautiful...
From an artistic point of view, the picture is exceptional. Words are used as if they cost money. Much of the story is told through the camera lens by hands, lips, eyes, gestures. The film could easily have been sensationalized. Restraint and tasteful selection should be credited to Robert Anderson, who did the script...