Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miller's ideas were caught. The camera, moreover, has let some fresh air and country scenery into a drama that often seemed stuffy and stage-bound, and the actors-principally Yves Montand as the hero and Mylene Demongeot as the leading witch-seem to play with more freedom and expressiveness than the original cast did. But Sartre, like Miller, has failed to extricate the essential lesson, the inmost horror of the episode...
Exit Miller. Enter Jean-Paul Sartre. In this French film version of the play, for which he wrote a capable and vivid script, Sartre, the famed existentialist and sometime fellow traveler, has somewhat enlarged the political reference in which...
...daughter of a Paris washerwoman. In due course, like most of the girls of her street, she became a prostitute. But she was beautiful, and soon the top banana of French anarchists. Armand Denis, gave her the Pygmalion treatment. He made a lady of her so that she could play with the very rich and arrange burglaries to finance Armand's assassination plans for the good of humanity...
...plot hinges on whether Miles will be appointed head of a new laboratory set up to study his own specialty. It is a Trollopian situation, as scientific panjandrums play politics with the skill and gusto of the Barchester Cathedral chapter contending over a vacant canonry. But the real story is a crisis in faith. Miles is distracted from his devotions by a girl named Audrey, and it is easy to see why Lord Rutherford did not like the erotic bits. She and Miles live it up at meetings of the Holborn Labour Party, and their sex life is described...
Bertie himself, his diary recorded, "broke down & sobbed like a child." The time was 1936, and King Edward VIII (David to his family) was about to abdicate in order to marry Mrs. Simpson. Until that time Bertie, Duke of York, had been happy to play second fiddle to a one-man band. His biographer, Oxford Don John Wheeler-Bennett, records his "agony of apprehension" lest he should become King. When the worst happened ("Led," wrote poor Bertie of himself, "like the proverbial 'sheep to the slaughter' "), and he was indeed King George VI, he said to his cousin...