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Instead of the hard-paced, sharp-edged direction that Herman Shumlin brought to the play, there is in the film a sluggish, confused manipulation of ideas and players. Instead of Actor Muni there is Spencer Tracy, the Hollywooden archetype of the wise old man, who as the years and pictures go by acts less and less and looks more and more as though he had been carved out of Mount Rushmore. Instead of Ed Begley in the role of Bryan there is Fredric March, who has somehow been persuaded to portray that unbalanced genius of the spoken word...
Divorced. Gordon Scott, 32, Hollywooden Tarzan No. 11; by Vera Miles (real name: Ralston), 29, sulking screen wife (The FBI Story); after 3½ years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico...
Author Schiemer sometimes clumps through his plot in Hollywooden shoes, but redeems himself by capturing the sights and sounds and smells of Egypt with the freshness of a documentary filmed on location. Like Paul Bowles's more accomplished novel, The Spider's House, set in French Morocco, The Cry of the Kite is a blend of the harsh and the exotic, and an entertainingly readable way of catching up on one's global homework...
...Open City (1946) and tolled out with Umberto D (1952), and every man of talent in the Italian movie industry knows it. Few are willing to give up the prospect of prosperity, but most are sad and just a little ashamed to see their pictures become more and more Hollywooden...
...faithful maid has another job ready & waiting the moment the funeral is over. These scenes, painstakingly written by Playwright Paul Osborn (On Borrowed Time, Point of No Return), have a certain effectiveness, but it is eventually canceled out by a slick reconciliation and by the offstage presence of a Hollywooden surgeon who knows just how to operate to save Dorothy's life...