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...Devil's Advocate (adapted from Morris L. West's novel by Dore Schary) asks the largest questions raised on Broadway this season-the largest questions, whether of Catholic theology or of living in the world, that man can ask. The play begins with a dying man sent off to ask questions about a dead one: a cancer-ridden English monsignor at the Vatican journeys to a mountain town in Calabria to serve as devil's advocate in the matter of a possible canonization. He is to investigate-in terms of his role, as critically as possible...
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Group III. Upcoming in this category (which included A Taste of Honey, Becket and Irma La Douce, among other fall openers) is Producer-Director-Writer Dore Schary's The Devil's Advocate, based on the Morris West bestseller about a contemporary case of sainthood in Italy. In the past, while wearing each of the three hats, Schary has scored 50% of the time, while his leading actor, Sam (Guys and Dolls) Levene, good as he is, has had a loser a year since...
...Dore Schary's film version of his Broadway success develops Franklin Roosevelt's ordeal by polio into a superior drama that is also a superb soap opera-and one of the year's shrewder pieces of political propaganda. Ralph Bellamy and Greer Garson make wonderful theater out of Franklin and Eleanor...
...Sinatra will be Ambassador to Italy," he said. "I'm hoping for Jerusalem, but I'll be lucky if I get Kenya." Some of Hollywood's other post-mortems last week were turning into post toasties as many echoed the comment of Democratic Writer-Producer-Director Dore Schary: "I don't know who can stave off this rush of professional showmen into politics, but somebody had better do it right away." Others agreed with Republican Dick Powell: "I think these people hurt Kennedy by their cheap publicity...