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...Window, 1949 Screenplay by Mel Dinelli, from the 1947 story ?The Boy Cried Murder? / ?Fire Escape...
Lundy's knowledge of sea lore and history is rich, his pace perfect, his intelligence full of energy. He differentiates each sailor with a novelist's touch. When Frenchman Raphael Dinelli's Algimouss capsized in a storm in the Southern Ocean, he managed to get on top of the inverted hull and cling there. The story of his rescue by his English competitor Pete Goss--who bravely turned back into the teeth of a force-10 gale and beat to windward until he located Dinelli--is one of those anecdotes of miracle that can be enacted only in an intense...
...budget Play of the Week presented a chilling, full-length production (two hours) of Alexander' Knox's The Closing Door, excellently played by Dane Clark and Kim Hunter. With some $200,000, NBC's Startime presented Audie Murphy in an hour-long condensation of Mel Dinelli's The Man, worked up little interest and no suspense. Meanwhile, pointing a TV moral, Producer Hubbell Robinson went on feasting on his overall $15 million budget for 39 Startime hours, but WNTA's Play of the Week was fighting for its life. Despite its record of first-rate...
Adapted by Mel Dinelli from his story and play, The Man, the movie is a pseudo-psychological thriller that succeeds in being more sedative than suspenseful. Ida Lupino, looking frail, suffers long and lugubriously, and moody Robert Ryan eventually seems more of a bore than a bogeyman...
Actress Young is seldom out of Director Tay Garnett's camera; her excellent acting almost turns Cause for Alarm! into a one-woman show. But a tight script by Mel (The Window) Dinelli and Producer Tom Lewis also contains rounded minor roles, unusually well played by Margalo Gillmore as a garrulous busybody and Irving Bacon as a footsore postman slogging toward his pension...