Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crash! The uncertain hamlet of Dogpatch is equipped with standard but movable props, all of them hazardous in the extreme. One of the oldest is the West Po'kchop Railroad, which runs almost perpendicularly up one side of Onnecessary Mountain and straight down the other. A stiffnecked industrialist named...
Producer Hal Wallis has decked out this contrived story with standard melodramatic props: dark shadows, windblown curtains, the strangler's poised hands. Ed Begley has a nice bit part as a gambler with ulcers. Heston is appropriately tough with Nightclub Singer Lizabeth Scott and predictably sentimental with Widow Viveca...
The reading theatre's production will present everything in the regular theatrical style, but will use a minimum of props and costumes.
The screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" follows the script, set, and even some of the props of the stage version with unusual faithfulness. But it fails to duplicate the central characters' sense of confinement and of frustration which was one of the chief virtues of the play...
People in Pushkin's time were undoubtedly impressed by such Baroque elements of horror as waxen images, howling mastiffs, voices from the tomb, and winking corpses. Today's movie audiences, a comparatively cynical lot, realize that these are simply props and studio effects. Nevertheless, when they turn up in "The...