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...last dance is a thrilling choreography, set in a picturesque sewer, of the primordial rite of dice-Michael Kidd has staged his ballets even more effectively than he did on Broadway. Frank Loesser's lyrics are classy, too, whether his music is or not, and Director Joseph Mankiewicz has often made the most of a very good Broadway book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows...
...same inspiration which led director Joseph L. Mankiewicz to select Marilyn Monroe for the part must have made him also choose Bette Davis. Her interpretation of an actress who cannot quite stop acting when she is off stage exposes the sadness and emptiness of a woman who can only make believe. It is almost frightening to watch the precision with which Bette Davis disassembled the mechanism of her character and lays bare the instincts of a child...
Hollywood likes to look at show business, but usually the result is a waste of film. Life in even a pajama factory is often more suited to drama. This time, however, Mankiewicz caught some unusually interesting show people in a really dramatic situation. He has put them in a picture which not only merits the honors it once earned, but also deserves to have lived for five years...
Trial (MGM) turns out to be as tellingly effective an anti-Communist movie as Hollywood has ever made. In a few painfully real scenes, iced with satire, Director Mark (Champion) Robson and Writer Don Mankiewicz have drawn an unsettling picture of just how U.S. Communists adopt and then ambush a "good cause...
Casting Shakespeare in modern dress, Orson Welles sleight-of-handed Caesar the role of a fascist. Hollywood's Joe Mankiewicz saw his Caesar as a kind of tired, pompous stockbroker. Shaw's hero in Caesar and Cleopatra is a worldly-wise but disenchanted superman whom power has made not mad, but sad. Front-rank Historical Novelist Duggan (The Little Emperors) throws dirt on these literary ghosts by spading straight for the facts and unearthing many a fascinating shard from ancient Roman political life...