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...Home will move many an audience to tears, but mostly for the wrong reasons. A watered-up treatment of the Tad Mosel play adapted for Broadway from the late James Agee's A Death in the Family, it pictures the laying to rest of Jay Follet, a young husband and father whose sudden death in an automobile accident teaches his family that the ties that bind are a tangled skein. Producer David Susskind and associates made the story a straightforward tearjerker-and left out the subtle, uncannily sensitive heart...
...very theme in the end is family life: husband, wife, small son in-laws, generations, dissimilar family backgrounds, differences over religion conflicts due to temperament, conjugal love, ultimate human separateness. What shifts various stresses, what tightens and loosens knots, is the impact on so many lives of young Jay Follet's sudden death in an automobile accident. The immediate, wrenching impact, above all on Jay's pregnant wife, gives the play its most powerful scene, an emotional climax from which the rest of the play moves downward. Jay's death not only reveals character, it challenges...
Great Promise. Just as for Jay Follet. death came suddenly in 1955 for Author James Agee, 45. Born in Knoxville, a graduate of Harvard, Agee spent 16 years as a writer on FORTUNE and TIME, and during the last years of his life worked on the scenarios for such movies as The African Queen, The Quiet One, Face to Face (in which he also appeared in a bit part). With each of his few books-Permit Me Voyage (1934), a collection of poems published when Agee was scarcely out of college; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), an angry...