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Directed by ELIA KAZAN Screenplay by CHRIS KAZAN
These have not been good times for Elia Kazan. He has not had a critical or popular success in films or the theater for years. His second novel, The Arrangement, was a huge bestseller, but the movie he made of it was a costly debacle. More recently, books about the blacklist, like Eric Bentley's Thirty Years of Treason, have revived the memory of Kazan's cooperation with congressional Communist-hunters in the early '50s. One looks to his work for reflections of these crises but finds only camouflage and confusion. The Arrangement, apparently intended...
...health regained, he packed up his wife and small son and moved to one of the two houses on his father's 170-acre farm in Newtown, Conn. Shortly after he settled down, he began a second novel, which was published in December as The Love Freak; Elia approached him with the idea for The Visitors, asking him to turn it into a screenplay-something Chris had never written before...
...moreover, the rarity--a vehicle for actors which actually goes somewhere, propelled not by the air of its histrionics but the pull of its emotion. All of which makes especially regrettable the collision between the play Streetcar and the people responsible for its adaptation to the screen: while Elia Kazan, directing a film for the first time, was distorting Streetcar by introducing realistic elements which Williams scrupulously avoided, the nameless censors from the Production Code office were removing almost all hints of improper behavior--a damaging process for a play which features a libertine as the heroine and an antagonist...
...would request that the Crimson, in dealing with this matter in the future, exercise greater care. Kulth A. Nier Elia Baker Poet...