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...first production of the play had the requisite terror but lacked the element of pity. One could only loathe Eddie; and the production suffered further from Martin Ritt's faulty direction (especially in the last scene) and the disgracefully poor acting of Gloria Marlowe as the niece. But now the play has both pity and terror. The new portions, particularly in the doorstep scene between Eddie and his wife in act one, clarify the characters' motivations; and, though we still cannot condone Eddie, we do understand and pity...
...Flowering Peach a degree below superlative, it doesn't destroy its advanced merit. Berta Gerson, as Noah's wife, almost matches Skulnik's expertness, and Mario Alcalde should grow into a top-flight actor. Janice Rule is awfuly pretty, if slightly monotonous in her interpretation, and both Martin Ritt and Leon Janney enter into Odets' idea of the Flood as a human parable as sons Shem...
Actually, the best features of the play are its lighting and its single set, the inside of a rooming house. The set is partitioned into a basement, a ground floor, and a stairway leading to the upper stories. And director Martin Ritt uses the set and lighting, especially in scene openings and closings, to achieve startling effects...
...story is built around a "wild, funny, and savage woman who runs a New York rooming house on East Fifteenth Street." Martin Ritt has been mentioned as director...
...giving an absolute verdict on its accuracy was unable to attend. Just as the movie began, the Bangkok radio took the air to announce that death, after hovering long near his hilltop suburban home, had come at last to scholarly, slim, 84-year-old Prince Naris (pronounced Nar-ritt), 62nd child and last surviving son of the movie's hero, King Mongkut...