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Guinness's script was written by Italian Screenwriter-Director Ennio de Concini, Maria Pia Fusco, and Austrian Producer Wolfgang Reinhardt, son of famed Director Max Reinhardt. In persuading Guinness to take the part, De Concini recalls, "I told him I saw the last days in the bunker like floating into nowhere in a first-class jumbo jet. You go into unreality, between life and death-der Führer crying, Eva Braun dancing to Tea for Two, the Nazi empire falling into destruction. I wanted to film all this in the manner of an 8-mm. movie...
...which derive from the screenplay by Novelist Marguerite (The Sea Wall) Duras, Director Resnais never sinks below a high creative standard. He commands a hysterically expressive performance from Actress Riva, some severely good photography from Takahashi Michio and Sacha Vierni, and an aptly abstract musical score from Giovanni Fusco and Georges Delerue. But what is most remarkable in the picture is the director's dexterity in combining all these elements and effects. He crosscuts and flashbacks with daring and sureness. He plays words from one sequence against images from another. He dubs sounds from Hiroshima into scenes in France...
Unferocious. During Prohibition, Lane became the Daily News gangster specialist. He was creating an Oxie technique then. He snickered at the gangsters by inventing unferocious nicknames for them: "Greasy Thumb" Gusik, "Loudmouth" Levine, "Violet" Fusco. (Fusco's pals thereafter sent him bunches of violets...
...last week Poormaster Barck was interviewing applicants in his office. He had been attacked so often that Patrolman Louis Carmody stood on guard outside his door. The officer had just been asked to arrest Mrs. Lena Fusco for spitting in Mr. Barck's face when into the office shuffled small Joseph Scutellaro, 36, an unemployed carpenter. Carpenter Scutellaro had received $5.70 for his wife and two babies since he applied for Relief in December...
Said Mrs. Fusco, who had a headache as result of the incident: "Screams are not unusual in our department. But the girl had good lungs-fine lungs, in fact-and she kept screaming so loud that they must have thought it was something different, and come running...