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...between commencement day and the beginning of World War II. The film omits some of the minor evidence against them and succeeds as a suds opera far superior to the ordinary household brand. Sharply written by Scenarist Sidney Buchman, it is directed with lively, Roosevelt-period flavor by Sidney Lumet and played with giddy, gossipy, delicious girlishness by a group of captivating young actresses who rediscover the '30s like Junior Leaguers unleashed at an antiques fair...
...whole production shows unerring taste. Boris Kaufman's subdued color photography evokes nostalgia the way old snapshots do, pulling the mind back to floppy hats and turbans and the horrors of early modern decor. Lumet skillfully sustains the drama's reminiscent mood without losing his amused detachment toward the well-educated, privileged creatures who, if nothing else, will remain loyal alumnae till the day they die. Virginity, infidelity, Communism, hard times, conception, contraception, Hitler and high fashion are their concerns. Balefully sizing up the groom at the group's first wedding, a bleak ritual in Greenwich Village...
Some Hollywood movies tried for foreign forms; for example, Sidney Lumet's The Pawnbroker, self-conscious despite Rod Steiger's virtuoso performance. Ship of Fools, by the overrated Stanley Kramer, was saved by the performances of three foreign stars, Simone Signoret, Vivien Leigh and Oskar Werner. Nothing But a Man, on the other hand, was persuasively unpretentious: it took a stronger, warmer, more objective look at contemporary Negro life in the U.S. than any other film to date...
...oasis. Television has George Schaefer. Now that Playhouse 90, the Alcoa Hour, Kraft Theater and Studio One have gone, Schaefer's Hallmark Hall of Fame is virtually the only greenery left. The other directors spawned in the golden days of live and tape television-Arthur Penn, Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer, et al.-have all gone to graze in the lusher pastures of Broadway or Hollywood. Only Schaefer still does business at the same old stand. For him 60 feet of studio space still offer acres of opportunity and fulfillment, as he proved with last week's Inherit...
...HILL. Looking less like Bond and more like Gable, Sean Connery leads a handful of World War II unfortunates up and down a sandy pyramid in Director Sidney (The Pawnbroker) Lumet's forceful if conventional drama of men v. masters in a British army stockade...