Word: mann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This little man, whose name is Abby Mann, believes militantly that "a great screenwriter should be given the same consideration as a great playwright." By a great screenwriter he means Abby Mann. Passing through New York, Mann had seen a preview version of the editing job that Director De Sica had applied to the latest Mann screenplay-an adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona. Mann was displeased. He typed out five single-spaced pages of complaint, leaped aboard a plane for Rome, and told De Sica to change the film or drop the name...
From a Barren Room. A young man of great energy, some talent, and no humility, Mann is currently the most active screenwriter in Hollywood. Since he won an Oscar last year for Judgment at Nuremberg, every Hollywood producer has been trying to sign him to write a script, and lucky actors whisper importantly to their friends that they have been cast "to do an Abby Mann." Later they whisper to Mann himself, saying what a great writer you are, darling. When a writer steps into that sort of atmosphere and is incautious enough to believe what the flatterers tell...
...Child Is Waiting. There are 5,700,000 "mental defectives" in the U.S., and this picture forces U.S. moviegoers to look them and their problems in the face. The theme is not pleasant, but the script (Abby Mann), the direction (John Cassavetes), and the principal performances (Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Bruce Ritchey) are honest and moving...
...Child Is Waiting. There are 5,700,000 "mental defectives" in the U.S., and his picture forces U.S. moviegoers to look them and their problems in the face. The theme is not pleasant but the script (Abby Mann), the direction (John Cassavetes) and the principal performances (Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Bruce Ritchey) are honest and moving...
...real defectives. But time and again the real defectives steal the show. At first the spectator can see only their defects, but at last he sees what lies behind the defects: children much like other children, children who wonderfully touch the heart. At this point. Scenarist Mann says simply and effectively what he fundamentally means to say: "These people have a right to life...