Word: mann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the situation examined in this picture. It is not a pleasant situation and it is not a pleasant picture. But as far as it goes the film is bone-honest, and at moments it is mortally moving. Adapted by Abby Mann from his 1957 television play, A Child Is Waiting describes in fiction that keeps close to fact what is being done in the better state schools for retarded children. And in the process it permits the spectator to spend 102 minutes in the company of 40 children clinically classified as imbeciles, idiots and morons-real retardates...
...Action? Yes, it's a Lana Turner picture, but wait-it's worth seeing. Lana plays a bookie bride, Dean Martin plays her horseplaying husband in a fairly funny formula farce directed by Daniel Mann...
...syndicate has the last laugh in this yak derby, but the customers get most of the others. Written by Jack Rose and directed by Daniel Mann, Action is not the merriest oatsmobile that ever came down the track, but Dean and Lana make a surprisingly smooth entry; Paul Ford is hilarious as a birdbrained, spaniel-eyed, llama-lipped pony player; and Walter Matthau has his moments as the big hairball who runs the syndicate-among them the deathless moment when, with a casual flick of his manicured fingers, he announces superbly: "Give dis genulman eighteen tousan' dolluhs fum petty...
...Purpose. Genesco was stitched together by Chairman Walton Maxey Jarman, 58, an introspective Baptist deacon whose favorite pastime is rereading the works of Thomas Mann. Impatient with the faults of others, Jarman also harbors a nagging concern that he may not understand himself, once took a battery of company psychological tests under an assumed name. The psychologists' verdict: Jarman was too shy and self-conscious ever to deal successfully with people, and would be a failure in management...
Images of Truth, by Glenway Wescott. Shrewd portraits of fellow authors (Katherine Anne Porter, Thomas Mann and others) by one of the U.S.'s best non-practicing novelists (he wrote The Pilgrim Hawk...