Word: rossen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scripter-Director-Producer Robert Rossen's efforts to keep Stark from being a facsimile of the late Huey Long often turn the character into a colorless man who lacks the political charm of a people's favorite and looks like a cross between a schoolteacher and a gangster. But when Actor Crawford is allowed to swing around in the role, he has some fine scenes-notably, the seedy politico resting off a nightlong drunk in a playground swing, gesturing the children to go off and leave him alone...
...words flew around the table between scholars, actors, technicians, a critic, a moviegoer, and some of the best U.S. moviemaking talent: 20th Century-Fox's Mankiewicz, M-G-M Production Chief Dore Senary, Warner's Jerry Wald, Independents John Huston, Hal B. Wallis and Robert Rossen...
...Mexico City; Robert Lynn Fischelis of Kirkland House and Philadelphia; Hiram Howell Hoelzer of Leverett House and New York City; Paul William Knaplund of Kirkland House and Madison, Wisconsin; David Eli Lilienthal Jr. of Adams House and Rockville, Maryland; Lawrence Francis O'Donnell of Dunster House and Taunton; John Rossen Over-cash of Kirkland House and Springfield, Tennessee; Gunther Karl Rosinus of Kirkland House and Wyoming, Ohio; William Dowse Weeks of Dunster House and Boston...
This rather conventional story, shaded with stout "socially conscious" sentiments against commercial ruthlessness, is turned into an unusual movie by Abraham Polansky's taut continuity and sharp dialogue, by Robert Rossen's solid directing, and by Cameraman James Wong Howe's vivid shots of fighting. A good deal of the picture has the cruelly redolent illusion of reality that distinguished many of the movies of low life made in the early...
Varsity: Foils--Van Rossen, Raney, Barricelli, Hubbard; Epee--Johnson, Duke, Masterson; Saber--Ellis, Edelman...