Word: manne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When director Daniel Mann works with experienced actors, such as Muni and Luther Adler (Abelman's closest friend, Dr. Max Vogel) his touch is sure and often imaginative; but the rest of the cast seems unable to carry out his suggestions. The worst of the group is Betsy Palmer (Woody Thrasher's wife) who is about as inspired as a deep sea diver in the Charles River...
Rallying from behind late in the fourth quarter, the Funsters finally connected on a ten-yard pass from DeWard Manser to Charley Mann for their only score...
...conceive of it in the most mystical terms, and there are many amateur Svengalis who, actually, know very little about what they are doing but are entranced with the notion that someone else is in their "power." In the wake of such books as DuMaurier's Trilby and Mann's Mario the Magician the idea that hypnotism is something supernatural had come to be a generally accepted fact...
Some of the lines sound merely pompous. (Sample: "What makes Sammy run? The answer to that is the answer to everything. Not just to you, to me, but to the country-maybe to the whole world.") But Director Delbert Mann keeps the pace as brisk as Sammy's own. As the heel-hero's idealistic mentor, Al Manheim, John (Bachelor Father) Forsythe looks and sounds like the soft-hearted friend to man he was meant to be. Barbara Rush is Schulberg's "Vassar smarty-pants" scriptwriter down to the last inflection; Dina Merrill plays the conniving heiress...
...MARY MANN...