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People Will Talk (20th Century-Fox). After looking askance at suburbia (A Letter to Three Wives) and show business (All About Eve), Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz now turns a critical eye on one of the nation's most revered sacred cows: the medical profession. In the third installment of his continuing probe of U.S. manners & morals, Mankiewicz argues that medicine needs more physicians like eccentric Gary Grant, whose lavish clinic is run on the theory that the sick are guests, not inmates, and should never be wakened at 6 in the morning for compulsory baths and breakfasts...
Based on a 1933 German movie by Curt Goetz called Dr. Praetorius, People goes fairly deep for Hollywood into such questions as witch hunts, illegitimate babies, medical ethics and income-tax exemptions. Mankiewicz gets a full measure of help from his cast, each of whom has at least one big scene to put his teeth into. Gary Grant, whether being intimidated by a collie or bearding a board of examiners, plays to perfection the man who refuses to worry about anyone's opinion but his own. In the difficult role of a girl who keeps falling...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Oscar-winning treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders (TIME...
...Best picture: All About Eve (20th Century-Fox), which also won five other Oscars (including two for Writer-Director Joe Mankiewicz...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tart treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders (TIME...