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...lots of movies. Last week he announced that 20th is driving ahead on one of the biggest shooting schedules in its history: 60 pictures in production, with another 28 screenplays ready for the cameras. Among $20 million worth of pictures to be released before the end of 1959: William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun, the French farce Palate, and a sexy shocker. The Chapman Report...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Rerun of Old Man, William Faulkner's story of a convict and a pregnant woman tossed together by a Mississippi River flood. One of Director John Frankenheimer's finest All times E.D.T. achievements. With Sterling Hayden and Geraldine Page...
...WILLIAM FAULKNER (MGM) reads selections from his novels-The Sound and the Fury, Light in August-in a voice as dry and fragile as a wisteria pod. The interest here is not in the pitch of line or phrase but in the incantatory plod of the Faulknerian periods, straddling page after page in the exhortation of meanings more felt than heard...
Nothing could be more wackily multifocal than The Tents of Wickedness, a story told through a sequence of parodies of other writers, among them Marquand, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Proust, Joyce and Kafka. The reader may come to feel that he has been washed, rinsed and spun dry in a literary Laundromat...
...Sound and the Fury. A laundered but effective version of Faulkner's novel about a hard man (Yul Brynner) and a wild, bewildered girl (Joanne Woodward) who fight each other and the genteel Southern decay around them as well...