Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berlin. In the event of a Red blockade of Berlin, the U.S. would face a poor tactical position. Destruction of bridges, railways and roads could block overland supplies, and radar jamming could make mass airlifts difficult. Berlin's biggest need would be the raw materials on which its new industrial prosperity is based. The city gets much of this from East Germany itself, and the President fears that the West might not be able to fill the demand if normal supplies were...
...Saxon Theatre, is a film version of Daphne DuMaurier's novel The Scapegoat. This affords the star another opportunity to undertake more than one role. But whereas he portrayed an octet of completely different characters in Kind Hearts and Coronets, his task here is in some ways much more difficult: Guinness, without benefit of contrasting makeup or costume, has to portray two men visually identical and sometimes conversing with each other--a British college French teacher on vacation in France, and a French count. The latter tricks the former into taking his place for three weeks as a "scapegoat...
...some very original and effective line-readings. Aline MacMahon is aptly warm-hearted as the Countess; and Barbara Barrie's Diana is properly wily yet pure. Hiram Sherman has fun with the Sergeant's mumbo-jumbo; and among other commendable jobs are Jack Bittner's Clown (though his most difficult passage is cut) and Sada Thompson's Widow...
...Summer Playhouse has chosen a large percentage of highly sophisticated comedies for the season, but so far they have not given evidence that their actors have sufficient flair for high comedy to merit the choice. Humor certainly makes for "light summer fare," but somehow comedy without flair is more difficult to swallow than drama without guts...
...relentless demand for an entire new production each week cannot help but produce some shaky premieres, with cues missed and whole speeches being dropped right and left. One had the sense of watching a late rehearsal rather than an actual performance, in fact, and it is therefore particularly difficult to pass judgment...