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...Waterfront (Horizon; Columbia) is an attempt by a master director, Elia Kazan, to develop heroic, classic-style drama out of dockside thuggery and union corruption. Kazan succeeds in producing a shrewd piece of screen journalism, a melodrama in the grand manner of Public Enemy and Little Caesar. But he fails to do anything more serious-largely because he tries too hard. In searching for the general meaning in little lives, Director Kazan has trained his lens down fine on small events; he has too often watched his characters through the magnifying glass of special prejudice-the old sentimental prejudice that...
...difficult to accurately praise Alexander Nevsky because Sergei Eisenstein, the main reason for its existence and excellence, is incomparably above his fellow directors. When, in the course of review, you have exhausted the supply of superlatives describing Kazan, Stevens, De Sica, and the other conventional geniuses, to evaluate Eisenstein is a frightening task...
Former Spencer lectures on theater topics include Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan, and T. S. Eliot...
Former Spencer lecturers include Arthur Miller, author of "Death of a Salesman"; Broadway director Elia Kazan; and poet-author-playwright T. S. Eliot...
...John Kerr (Bernardine) enhances a nicely written role with sure, quiet acting. In the foggier role of the housemaster's wife, Cinemactress Deborah Kerr (no relation) is very radiant, but a little wooden. Theatrically, Kazan's direction is everywhere successful; yet it exploits its material as often as it expresses it; goes arm in arm with the script where it might better lead...