Word: mcredith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made the play such a success on Broadway have been cut out, one by one, to sop rural box office, industrial interests, and Mussolini. With such a great amount of vitality drained from the original play, the movie cast has little substance upon which to build their characterizations. Burgess Mcredith's radical Quillery suffers especially from this limitation; Edward Arnold as the munition manufacturer is a bestial villain--which was certainly not Sherwood's intention in writing the play. Even the essential structure of the plot itself has been changed to suit movie audiences;--the pathetic attempt to tack...
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