Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book, Hemingway's noval, is not what it was cracked up to be, not for the screen at least. It is, however, so much better than the scenario about commandos which the boys on the outskirts of Los Angeles have been grinding out lately, with a carbon under it for the next commando picture, that it, becomes a shining example of fine celluloid drama...
They are harsher in the movie than in the novel or the play, and so is their dramatic impact. In the movie (scenario by Nunnally Johnson, who also did Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath) the camera witnesses many important events that take place offstage in the play. The picture shows the Nazi invaders' confident march into the mining village of Selvik, their mowing down of a pitiful dozen of Norwegian soldiers, the villagers' terror and confusion. Then, in the sharp language of action rather than introspective comment, it describes the villagers' growing hatred and resistance...
Saroyan wrote The Human Comedy as a scenario (the novel was an afterthought), sold it to M.G.M. for $60,000 on the understanding that he would direct the picture. Assigned to practice on a short, the temperamental Mr. Saroyan soon got so fed up with the studio's "continuous and disgraceful crying, trembling and shaking" that he walked...
...made some of Hollywood's biggest successes: Dawn Patrol (first big flying film), Scar face (which started the gangster picture cycle), Sergeant York. First married to Athole Shearer (Norma's sister), Howard Hawks was divorced by her in 1940, and last year married a young scenario writer, Nancy Gross, lives with her on a new 100-acre ranch in the hills west of Los Angeles...
This novelized autobiography is a confused, cynical, sharply intelligent scenario of a young man's struggle to tie himself to a set of beliefs with which he can live at peace. It is also a somewhat garish finger-painting of the genesis of a New Dealer...