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...verse of Poet Archibald MacLeish and the theatrical verve of Director Elia Kazan, a businessman's Job comes excitingly alive...
...Restated by Archibald MacLeish and directed by Elia Kazan, the modern Job comes flashingly, if sometimes flatly, alive...
...Elia Kazan, Broadway and Hollywood director and producer...
...without cheesecake, without studio supervised romances, even without a swimming pool. It could have happened only in a new Hollywood, which has found that kookiness can be more appealing than yesterday's gilded glamour. "It's this togetherness stuff, that's what it is," says Director Elia Kazan. "In the old days, with one or two exceptions, Hollywood girls couldn't be both sexy and funny. Nowadays they insist on being so-called complete women-healthy and natural. The new crop of actresses is dedicated to the proposition that the girl next door can also...
...does so while remaining well within the bounds of what is acceptable on the modern screen or stage. The real trouble with the film lies in Williams' failure to make his people anything more than corrupt. They have more medical than dramatic interest--or at least they did until Elia Kazan got to work on them...