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Screenplay by IRVING RAVETCH, HARRIET FRANK JR. and WILLIAM DALE JENNINGS...
...raucous, good-natured ode to the end of innocence -a kind of motorized Huckleberry Finn. William Faulkner's original novel spun a mellow tale about an eleven-year-old lad named Lucius McCaslin and his wild-eyed adventures on a trip to Memphis in 1905. Screenwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., having done previous Faulkner adaptations in The Long Hot Summer and The Sound and the Fury, by this time know the Yoknapatawpha territory more than passing well. Their sharp and reverent screenplay, featuring a felicitous narration by Burgess Meredith, helps make The Reivers one of the year...
Newman's acting is one of two things that make Hud better than just a good modern adult western. The other is the screenplay, adapted by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. from a novel by Larry McMurtry. Besides being an absorbing study in the conflict between two strong personalities, it is that rarity among Hollywood scripts, a critique of society...
...Sound and the Fury (20th Century-Fox) is the most interesting operation Hollywood has ever performed on a William Faulkner book. Scriptwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., in their shrewd but ruthless resection of the story, have revised almost every episode out of all resemblance to the novel, and have tidied up almost every character so as not to offend the mass public. Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving...