Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Convicts (Stanley Kramer; Columbia), based on Psychologist Donald Powell Wilson's 1951 bestseller about his prison experiences, comes to the screen accenting the corn instead of the criminology. The book was a sprightly account of a three-year research project into the relationship between drug addiction and criminality, which Wilson conducted at Leavenworth in the early '30s for the U.S. Public Health Service. It also told of the six convicts who assisted him-and who tested him as much as he tested them...
...destroyer-minesweeper Caine had romance, action, villainy, and as miserable a crew of sailors as ever took over a ship (TIME, April 9). The U.S. Navy, without whose "cooperation" the picture cannot be successfully filmed, let loose a broadside at the whole movie project. To Producer Stanley (Champion) Kramer, Information Chief Rear Admiral Robert Hickey wrote: "I believe your production would plant in the minds of millions the idea that life in the Navy is akin to confinement in a psychiatric institution...
...Kramer wants to go ahead with The Caine Mutiny, the Navy suggests that he l) drop the word "Mutiny" from the title, 2) clean up the Caine so it will seem to be a better ship, 3) raise the I.Q. of the enlisted men, and clean them up a little too, 4) go easy on Queeg's cowardice, 5) perk up the Caine wardroom so the officers will appear to be "ordinary, well-trained, neat, efficient people rather than a scurvy lot of misfits," 6) tone down one character's references to the "morons...
...Producer Kramer, "amazed" at the Navy's blast, said last week: "This is all silly. Nobody has seen the screenplay yet. It isn't finished." When it is, Kramer is sure the Navy will like it fine...
About-Face. It was a complete about-face, and heavyset, rasping Defense Attorney Arthur H. Dean did not let Kramer get away with it. Dean quoted chapter & verse from a Government statement of 14 months ago: "There will be no amendment to change our course of action . . ." The Government had said flatly that the case would stand or fall on the overall conspiracy charge. Medina seemed amazed at the new turn of events. "This is the first time," said he, ". . . that the Government [has indicated] that if it lost completely on . . . the overall conspiracy charged, they would still be entitled...