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This premise, quite a literary one, seems at first unsuited for treatment on the big screen. The sparse dialogue shares time with voice-overs by Bancroft and Hopkins reading aloud the amusing epistolary interchanges between their characters. Perhaps correctly sensing the thinness of the letters gimmick, screenwriter Hugh Whitmore tries...
Not everyone was pleased with the effects of the shantytown. "I think many of us had mixed feelings. Many of us felt very satisfied with what we had done, and many of us felt dissatisfied that the shanties weren't used for things as successfully as they could have been...
But do students have to risk expulsion and declare virtual war on Harvard to be given a high priority? The University drives students to adopt extreme tactics, which it then claims to abhor, by blocking all alternative routes. Rational arguments fall on deaf ears. Undergraduate Council studies take light-years...
DIED. Alexander Scourby, 71, plummy-voiced actor and narrator of television and film, including Victory at Sea (1954); of an apparent heart attack; in Boston. The Brooklyn-born Scourby began on the New York stage in 1936 as a Shakespearean actor. Though he protested, "What actor wants to be known...
Joffe and Davidson chose to cut between Pran's privations and Schanberg's searching's, contrasting the objective desperation of Pran's position with the psychological desperation of Schanberg's guilt. But since Pran was not allowed to talk and independent thought was considered a crime, Joffe uses voice overs...