Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anybody who wants to see the whole show at the Exeter can stay to watch the main feature, Holiday for Henrietta. A fairly amusing if rather light-weight French comedy, the picture relates the agony of a couple of script writers trying to grind out a scenario for a new movie. Each idea they dredge up is shown acted out as if it were part of the finished production...
Social Document. Writes Critic Bazin: "The Corneilleian simplicity of the western scenario has often been parodied. It is true that it is easy to detect an analogy to Le Cid: same conflict between love and duty, same knightly deeds, resulting in the virgin consenting to forget the insults to her family . . . But this comparison is ambiguous: to mock westerns by evoking Corneille is also to point out their grandeur, a grandeur perhaps close to puerility, even as childhood is close to poetry . . . Everyone, children and simple men, recognizes the naive grandeur of western movies. Epic and tragic heroes are universal...
...Prodigal (MGM) is one more Biblical exegesis by the box office theologians of Hollywood. A freewheeling, full-color CinemaScopic plunge into the anachronistic past, the film is based on the parable of the prodigal son according to St. Luke, but the scenario is jazzed up with additional story by a trio of latter-day prophets (Maurice Zimm, Joe Breen Jr., Samuel James Larsen...
Many moviegoers will not get the idea, and many who do will not think it a very good one; and for such the scenario provides a few fine bits of very smart Alec. "Remember,'' he remarks vaguely to his son as they inspect their room in a French hotel, "that's not a foot bath." Best of all is the moment when Alec, having rashly climbed a tree to retrieve a badminton bird, staggers at last out of a series of vegetable ignominies. And where is the bird? It is not hard to imagine, as dazedly...
...plot of this one; everybody has his own version, and it doesn't really matter. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall embellish the incomprehensible Raymond Chandler book with their own brand of loving, fighting, killing, and grunting, and that should be enough for anyone. William Faulkner is responsible for the scenario...