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...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...
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...
...play told much of its story in flashbacks, which is one of the tricks the movies do superbly. But Director Laslo Benedek models his flashbacks on the way they were done on the stage, e.g.: part of the set opens or lights up to represent the past, and without a change of costume or makeup, Willy Loman walks out of the present and enacts a scene reliving a memory. This technique, striking in itself, clashes oddly with the everyday realism of the movie's settings. Director Benedek does not improve matters by tricking up the sets with such expressionistic...
Died. Philip Alexius Laslo de Lombos, 68, academic Hungarian painter who had done portraits of Pope Leo XIII, former Kaiser Wilhelm, Presidents Harding & Hoover, King Edward VII, Premier Mussolini; of heart disease; in London. During the War when he, a British citizen, sent money to a friend in Hungary, he was convicted of "trading with the enemy," clapped into jail...