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With so much dough riding the throw, Duvivier carefully hedged his bet. His script tore down Tolstoy's complex scaffolding of historico-religious theory, eliminated the subplots, preserved only the central study of a falling woman, with a few glimpses of the high society she fell from. This might have been sufficient if the film had also saved a suggestion of the dreadful glacier-creep of Tolstoy's characterization. Instead, the camera work is uniformly uninspired, and the psychological glacier dissolves into teary slush...
What is exasperating about all this is that the novel so gapingly succumbs to the pompous middle-class standards of its own characters. Inflated Bel, a meddling woman busily climbing the social ladder; dough-mouthed Mungo and his horsy noble-blooded bride; rattle-brained David unable to decide between love and honor-these ciphers are fondled by Scottish Author McCrone as if they were creatures whose experience had intrinsic significance and value...
Marre is sure that there is no political consciousness in Hollywood, and he deplores this fact. "All the producers are interested in is dough," is his firm comment, "and the whole investigation is baseless...
...three schools and two universities (Temple and the University of Pennsylvania) for "recalcitrance." He had no idea what he wanted to do ("All I knew was that I didn't want to be an artificial limb manufacturer"). He became a sportwriter, later switched to advertising ("Seeing all that dough, I thought of poor editorial me. I decided it was the admen who got the gravy...
Talent with a Taint. Eddie Lewis, the narrator, is a pressagent, prey to the pressagent's stock neurosis: Shall I go on prostituting my talent for dough or shall I bravely become a Serious Writer? A nice girl, Beth, thinks Eddie should be brave, but his boss, Nick Latka, has a big thing for him to build up-a giant Argentine with a glass jaw who can be babied and ballyhooed into a heavyweight contender. This game appeals to Eddie and so does his promised cut of the proceeds, so he takes leave of Beth and swings...