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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David Bryden seems slightly miscast as Lt. Barney Greenwald, counsel for the defense, in many ways the focal character of the play. He carries the part with a brashness and at times a gaucherie that seems entirely unfitted to the role, although he has a few redeeming moments. James Putnam...
As a consequence of his attempted one-man rule, the Commission has almost become a front for its chairman's foibles. Among these are a devotion to secrecy about the dangers of fall-out (except in the exchange of information with Britain, where Strauss was treated like royalty) and a...
Taps for George. The special quality of the book lies in the character of George McGough (pronounced McGoo), archetype of all overprivileged rebels without a cause. His doctrine is personal survival. They're out to get us; boy, one and all ... They fill the air with boomerangs. It'...
The biggest fault of the film comes from this everybody-has-a-story approach to all the characters. The life histories and present predicaments of each minor character intrude on the main action too much and tend to distract attention from the principals. You leave the theater confused by incidental...
Aside from this The Bachelor Party is succesful and well worth seeing. Charley, the young man (Don Murray), and his wife (Pat Smith) are both properly ordinary looking and, their intent being to act as naturally and untheatrically as possible, do very well. Jack Warner is just right in another...