Word: keeper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citadel of Eastern-originated television was threatened last week by a routine Silver Theater show (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). The half-hour presentation, His Brother's Keeper, unusual only because it was shot entirely in film, was the first example of a multi-camera filming method devised by Hollywood's short-subject veteran Jerry Fairbanks, assisted by Silver Theater Producer-Director Frank Telford...
...using three cameras simultaneously, Fairbanks and Telford were able to take medium shots with the center camera, close-ups and cross-shots with the side cameras. They completed the shooting of His Brother's Keeper in one day, got a minute of film for every 16 minutes of working time. The total production cost came to $6,000-no more than a similar live dramatic telecast would cost. "And if we do only one or two repeats of the show," says Telford, "the production cost drops to practically nothing...
Sydney Greenstreet and Valentina Cortesa, the mainstays of the supporting cast, do an excellent job of keeping up the oriental atmosphere. Greenstreet, a stock character in exotic movies, plays a saloon-keeper who trades with both Japs and Allies, while Cortesa is a halfbreed singer who does just about the same thing, but what they do or say is unimportant; it's the remarkable far-eastern aura they create that counts...
...tries everything: rebelling openly, putting up with her hard lot and, finally, when she becomes pregnant, scheming to escape. In the film's best scene, she even tries to tempt an island priest (Renzo Cesana) into helping her get away. Finally her wiles succeed with a young lighthouse keeper, who gives her the money she needs to go fleeing across the island...
Brother's Keeper. In Sydney, Australia, James Cain was charged with using indecent language to Police Constable Ronald Abel...