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Scene by scene the film is written-mostly by Playwright Miller; Scenarist Norman Rosten made few additions to the play-with clear intelligence and rude male force. In his direction, despite a tendency to get cute with the camera, Sidney Lumet often achieves a noble seriousness that makes the drama seem almost a rite-as is only appropriate: classic tragedy was the Dionysian counterpart of the Christian Mass. The actors without exception excel, but Actor Vallone beggars comparison. He is the gritty essence of stevedore. He looks like one of Michelangelo's Captives, half man. half rock...
...Their keepers, a fat mother who gorges herself on candy-counter goodies and a nurse who gobbles up drugstore novels, are shown to be truly infantile. But after the age-group hourglass has been turned upside down, the sands of drama merely trickle through, and the effect is cute rather than acute...
...suffer brain fag identifying the Michaelson family. There is Daddy (Art Carney), a Blunt Ox with a heart as big as his wallet ("I got in plastics early"). There is Mom (Phyllis Thaxter), a sugar-coated Sphinx full of smiling inner wisdom. There is Daughter Mollie (Elizabeth Ashley), a cute little Bunny hopping from her West Coast home to an Eastern college, and into the sights of the great white hunters from Harvard, Princeton and Yale...
...best pal the author ever had-a lovable, rubbery otter named Mij, who could clown like a dog, slink like a cat, and swim better than anything else that ever got wet. Maxwell respects his old friend's dignity, and never allows his recollections to become cute...
...they to be regarded not as books at all, but as some kind of toy barely distinguishable from building blocks except that they are flatter and can be torn up? The economics of such kiddieware is impressive. One, a book written and illustrated by Tomi Ungerer, is about a cute bat and offers 334 words for $2.95, which would be fair enough if the author-artist personally baby-sat with each small customer. "Bats. Not for me," observed D. H. Lawrence, who wrote notably of game as well as gamekeepers. His Birds, Beasts and Flowers (suitably desexed), might...