Word: novels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adam (adapted from Pat Frank's novel by Jack Kirkland; produced by Mr. Kirkland) was the season's final play and worst experience. It concerned the one man in the world who had not been left sterile by an atomic explosion. Plugging doggedly away, Adapter Kirkland (Tobacco Road) left no phrase unturned that might possibly call forth a snicker. But Mr. Adam was worse than vulgar; it was almost maddeningly boring. By week's end it had followed the season to the grave...
...months M-G-M had throbbed with preparations for a super-epic Quo Vadis, based on the famed Sienkiewiecz novel about Roman persecution of the early Christians. Filming was to start July 1 in Rome on a $4, 000,000-to-$5,000,000 budget, a whopper for an economy-minded industry. Already shipped from Hollywood were 125 of 150 scheduled tons of equipment, including giant generators to feed the Technicolor arc lamps. Planes had flown eight tons of armor, enough to gird a Roman army of 2,500. On Manhattan's Times Square, a huge sign ballyhooing...
...other hand, Pierre Schneider's sensitive piece of criticism, "Celine, A Lasting Scream," shows what can be done in a critical vein. Schneider, in his analysis of this novelist's technique, does an excellent job of evaluating the contemporary novel in general, the novel whose author "plucks only the lowest and smoothest cord." He catches and understands the power that Celine's works carry, and acutely dissects the reason's effect of that power on the reader...
...from H. G. Wells's novel-see CINEMA). After
...figures in a ballet. The British, trying in this movie to mix glamor with small, telling touches of reality, have missed out on both. The failure is particularly glaring because a number of highly skilled hands were involved in it. The plot was based on an H. G. Wells novel, The Passionate Friends. The screenplay was written by a topnotch storyteller, Eric Ambler (Journey into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios). The film was put together by one of the best directors on either side of the Atlantic, David Lean (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations...