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...being pushed around. Furthermore, they want something done about it--fast. But Negroes know that before they can be accepted as full citizens, they must first be recognized as real and complete human beings, with feelings that can be hurt and turned sour. Screen Plays Corporation and director Mark Robson set out to demonstrate this first truth without any mumbling or crossed fingers. What they want to show is simply this: If you hate a black man for being black, he hates your guts for being a bigot. And if you needle him long enough, he's liable...
...also indulges in a handful of coincidences and cliches that weaken an otherwise tight structure. Perhaps the most difficult problem facing a critic of this movie is its basic black-and-white. journalistic character: you can't get involved because the hero doesn't draw sympathy. Director Mark Robson has shaded the film impersonally and perfectly. It is a tribute to his direction that the one strong emotion the audience feels is the desire to haul Midge Kelly up off the floor every time he gets knocked down. That is the strength of the film-a strength which overmatches...
...called it the best of Dallas' eight-play season. One reviewer ranked it as high as anything ever done at the playhouse, where Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke had its first showing. Already slated for this summer's Edinburgh Festival of Music and Drama with Flora Robson starred, it was thought to be a cinch for Broadway production. Though the authors refused to share this prediction, Collaborator Evans sounded cautiously optimistic: "We've tasted blood. We don't want to do anything ever again except write for the theater...
...chicken feed for a modern A movie), they had made a picture which some experts guessed would gross $3,000,000. They had also delivered a stiff uppercut to Hollywood's heavyweights. Sam Goldwyn promptly bought up the talents of Champion's young (34) Director Mark Robson (who, like Douglas, will continue to do one picture a year for Screen Plays). Aggressive little Screen Plays' next: Home of the Brave, the first of the new Hollywood cycle on the Negro problem (TIME, March...
...Robson, who will be introduced by Morris B. Lambie, professor of Government, is speaking under the auspices of the Graduate School of Public Administration. Now on a brief visit to the University, he is well known as an authority on the problems of English local government and administrative...