Word: fredric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mean Spear. When Paddy Chayefsky's Gideon was on the road in Philadelphia, Fredric March, who plays God, graciously requested that Douglas Campbell (Gideon) be given equal billing. The gesture was just. Campbell's is a star performance throughout, a convincing portrait of an Old Testament bumpkin who holds earthy colloquy with his Maker ("I can't love you, God, you're too vast a concept") and shivers under the impact of the divine power that enables him to command his tribe and save his people. Campbell, 39, also built the foundations of his career...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, explores the relationship of God and man in a compelling, if not exalted, drama. Fredric March and Douglas Campbell brilliantly light up Chayefsky's firmament...
...Broadway Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky. A lustrous morality play about the simple farmer chosen by the Lord to lead the Israelites to victory over the Midianites. Fredric March as the Lord and Douglas Campbell as Gideon are, to put it mildly, magnificent. Chayefsky's vocabulary spirals off into rhetoric and his reasoning is sometimes flawed, but his theme is enduring-man's relationship...
...play is drawn from three chapters in the Book of Judges. The Israelites are in the toils of a false god, Baal, and harsh enemies, the Midianites. The Angel of the Lord (Fredric March) appears before Gideon (Douglas Campbell) and hails him as a "mighty man of valor" chosen to lead his people to victory. The comic incongruity of the choice is heightened by Gideon's initial appearance as a kind of donkeyfied village dolt. The Angel, who is, in effect, the Lord, lays down a plan by which 300 Israelites will rout and slay 120,000 Midianites...
...plot centers on a clash of principles and personalities between a messy old dear of a pathologist (Fredric March) and the slick young bug-detective (Ben Gazzara) called in to ease him out. The new boy is appalled by the unscientific squalor he finds in the pathology lab, which is one of the principal diagnostic tools in any hospital's kit. He lights a hot fire under March, but the old boy stubbornly refuses to budge. "My face is turning purple trying to swallow you," he rages, "but I will! I'm staying!" And the young man just...