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Panic in the Streets. Director Elia Kazan's realistic thriller about a New Orleans manhunt for a criminal who is also an unwitting plague-carrier; with Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas (TIME...
...Mielziner's set is not "pretty," but neither is the play. He has designed what is the answer to every director's dream--a set which echoes the mood of the play and which, through imaginative lighting, molds itself to the rising action. Elia Kazan's skilled direction has shaped the production into a meaningful, clear-cut picture of desire and despair. A play of the merit of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" is deserving of all the thought and skill that has been lavished...
...then straight to Broadway. She joined the Theatre Guild as a part-time secretary, worked her way up through odd jobs to casting director, quit in 1931 to become a founder and director of the fiery young Group Theatre, which launched Clifford Odets, Sidney Kingsley, William Saroyan, Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, John Garfield...
...offer two full-length parodies that hit at least as many right notes as wrong ones: a musical-comedy Hamlet (with Dick Sykes), which has the good sense to swipe its music, and a Streetcar-like, Salesman-like version of Cinderella as it might have been directed by Elia Kazan...
...Kazan has directed an artfully balanced script (by Dudley Nichols and Philip Dunne) with a heavy poetic atmosphere and shrewd attention to dramatic detail. He has pumped conflict into every scene and sustained the excitement throughout even the talky stretches...