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Somehow, the fresh and volatile Bancroft talent carries extra surprise, for the brief Bancroft career is a thunderous theatrical cliche. Even the name is a typical Hollywood banality: 28 years ago when she was born, Anne Bancroft was Anna Maria Italiano. She was the kid who scribbled on the back...
Career. The nerve chart of a stagestruck ex-soldier who goes from cliché to cliche, saved by Anthony Franciosa's tingling performance.
Career (Hal Wallis; Paramount), the film version of James Lee's off-Broadway hit of 1957, tells the story of a stage-struck ex-soldier (Anthony Franciosa) from Lansing, Mich, who heads for Manhattan after World War II to become an actor. He imagines himself going from hit to...
(So now you'll go to your party. You'll play another round of literary hopscotch--"I read Jude the Obscure last summer." "Oh, did you? I just finished Tom Jones, it's the first picaresque novel." And then you'll talk, in small attentive groups, of value judgments and...
Technically, though, Room at the Top never misses a trick. The camera work is thoughtful, even analytic. Its insistence on detail provides much of the film's bite. By carefully modulating the differences between slum and castle, the sets manage to avoid an old cliche and interject a new point...