Word: saroyon
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Judging from script readings and rehearsals, Bill has done it again--a charming, moving fantasy expressing the Saroyon belief in the essential goodness of the ordinary man. It's another human comedy just like "The Time of Your Life," Love's Old Sweet Song," and "My Heart's In the Highlands...
...translate, Saroyon's message of man's basic goodness to a medium such as the screen requires a delicate hand, because the idea is very apt to be overdone. Clarence Brown, producer director, and Howard Estabrook, who wrote the screen play, try very hard but they sometimes outdo the shaggy-haired eccentric in being sloppily sentimental. "The Human Comedy" is the story of a typically Saroyan family in the typically Saroyan town of Ithaca, California. There is Homer MacCauley, who pedals a bicycle for Postal Telegraph and learns about life (Saroyan life, that is) from veteran telegrapher Frank Morgan...
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