Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practically everybody knows, One Summer of Happiness contains a nude bathing scene that has heated the blood of various American censors. The Swedish movie opened in Boston in its original form, but sure enough, several days later its scenario was discreetly "edited," while in the Beacon Hill's newspaper advertisements Kirsten, the young heroine, suddenly acquired a bathing suit. The cutting has not hurt the film much, but of course it was stupid and unnecessary. In either of its versions, One Summer of Happiness is restrained, beautiful, and totally lacking in offensiveness. It displays infinitely better artistic taste than...
...Flesh, francois Sagan in Bonjour Tristesse. In 1923, the late great Colette turned her fiftyish hand to the subject, produced a luminous and sensuously intuitive study of adolescent awakening. Republished in the U.S. for the first time in a quarter-century. The Ripening Seed has also taken scenario form as 1954's sensitively made but ineptly titled French film. The Game of Love. For the 16-and 15-year-old hero and heroine of this novel, love is about as far from a game as the coming-of-age rites of primitive tribes...
Johnson's script is a slick, competent job. While the scenario is complex and maybe too long, it makes effective use of flashbacks to fill in the war career of the man in the grey flannel suit. The flashbacks show how he killed seventeen men in the war, and--more convincingly--how he fell in love with an Italian girl in Rome. Returning home, he has a new attitude toward himself and the public relations job which he soon takes. Remaining self-consistent, the action builds up to a series of crucial scenes. If some of the early parts...
...scenario had been carefully prepared by the gang leader, fat Anthony Pino, 48, an alien from Sicily whose criminal record ranges from molesting a young girl to stealing a dozen golf balls, and whose oafish manner covers a keen intelligence. Before he was ready to stage the robbery, Pino carefully picked his cast and cased the North Terminal Garage (the Brink's headquarters) many times, figuring escape routes and systematically noting schedules and shipments of money. He learned exactly where the big money was stored, went over every foot of the establishment after closing hours. Under the noses...
...often that British film makers can have the fun of getting sentimental and still hope to survive in the American market. Lease of Life, the latest example of British scenario-with-message, is uncommonly plausible and hence may do quite well commercially. Much of it is excellent...