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Reclining Figure (by Harry Kurnitz) is a comedy about an eccentric and difficult art collector, and his daughter and his dealers and his staff. Offered a fake Renoir. Lucas Edgerton feels for the first time a genuine enthusiasm-rather than mere acquisitive excitement-for a picture; and one of Playwright Kurnitz's twists is that, seeing the boss so jubilantly bamboozled. Edgerton's own cowed, stoogelike expert lacks the courage to enlighten...
Director Reed and Scripter Harry Kurnitz have far fewer things to say about people than they have ways to say them. The theme of The Man Between is, after all, no more than love-on-the-run, and all the political furniture could just as well be Grand Rapids-it is only there for the hero and heroine to fall over. As a result, Director Reed spends much of his time straining for exquisite effects (e.g., the hoarse crunch of snow under the Russian kidnap-car as it crawls like a malevolent beetle in pursuit of the heroine) that...
...Trapped in Hollywood by New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, Producer Harry Kurnitz detailed "standard equipment" needed by a screenwriter: "A Capehart, a Utrillo, a French poodle, a sun lamp, an exwife, a lawyer (for the ex-wife), an antique Chippendale gag file, some cashmere underdrawers, an empty box at the Hollywood Bowl (it doesn't count if anybody ever sits in it), one friend (preferably getting the same salary he gets)." "A typewriter?" suggested Wilson. Kurnitz shuddered, explained that a writer always dictates...
...MURIEL KURNITZ...
...which make up Hargrove's war is strung together with just enough story to keep things moving-and just enough plausibility to keep them from getting out of hand. Hargrove's experiences (which are not actually Writer Marion Hargrove's but the inventions of Scripter Harry Kurnitz) have the flavor of a letter home to an aunt who is a good old sport...