Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play-grinder" so that movie makers can insert a good drama, turn a crank and pull out a different, but equally good, movie. But since there is no such machine now, producers and directors must use their own judgment in deciding what will be effective for the screen. Stanley Kramer and Laslo Benedek have guessed wrong in Death of a Salesman...
...Kramer could not put these effects, which belong to the theatre, in a motion picture. It was his job to substitute something in their place, and he didn't. The story of a salesman who grasped a false set of values still penetrates into the moral decadence of a certain American group. Willy Loman's betrayal by his own personal gods and his complete deterioration are unchanged. They are shown objectively without sentiment, but they seem to be encased in an ugly, ill-fitted coat of words. Small characters are no longer standing before us on a stage; they...
With the exception of March, Kramer cast his movie well. The actors do the best job possible, but Laslo Benedek's direction fails to catch the whole meaning of the play...
...screening it as pure realism, he loses Willy Loman, the symbol of a salesman, and leaves only Willy Loman, a certain salesman who got a tough break out of life. And Kramer's production, although it is too fuzzy and heavy to be a great movie, is still worth seeing. The movie Willy Loman is merely incomplete--the other Willy Loman was better...
Every pro tennis promoter feels pretty sure that every amateur has his price. In Australia, Melbourne Promoter Ted Humphrey figured that ?40,000 ($89,600) was about right to buy the Aussies' No. 1 star, Frank Sedgman. Top U.S. Professional Jack Kramer also made his sales pitch to Sedgman, dangled before him the prospect of a money-making world tour...