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Word: kurnitz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'Idiote, is a sex-cum-murder comedy. Stars Julie Harris and Walter Matthau keep the winy wit at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature and pour it to a farce connoisseur's taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 24, 1961 | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'ldiote, is a sex-cum-murder comedy. Between them, Stars Julie Harris and Walter Matthau keep the winy wit at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature, and pour it to a farce connoisseur's taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 17, 1961 | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'Idiote, artfully blends bedroom farce and murder mystery. Julie Harris brings her gamin charm to the role of a chambermaid who wakes up in beds she never made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 10, 1961 | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

...Shot in the Dark, adapted for Broadway by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit L'Idiote, combines bedroom farce with murder mystery. The sex and suspense are unevenly blended, but a sharpshooter cast, headed by Julie Harris and Walter Matthau, drills the evening acceptably full of laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Slight Case of Murder | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

Surprise Package (Columbia) is stuffed with expensive ingredients: Yul Brynner MItzi Gaynor, Noel Coward in front of the camera Director Stanley (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) Donen behind it plus a script by Harry (Reclining Figure} Kurnitz based on a novel (A Gift from the Boys} by Columnist Art Buchwald. But as far as entertainment is concerned, Package contains only what is known in show business as a bomb Director Donen clearly intended to tell a shaggy-dog story the way John Huston did in his hilarious Beat the Devil but unfortunately, Donen's dog turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 14, 1960 | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

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