Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supper. Like so many other movies about the birth of Christianity, this film has a hard struggle trying to dramatize religion. Faith is depicted as a kind of chance commodity: some have it, some haven't-and the have-nots can get it merely by leafing through the scenario to the proper page...
...like so many festival pictures, it goes to great lengths to show that culture can be brought to the masses. With quivering voice, the narrator tells how sewing circles transform themselves into Shakespeare study groups, and how every window displays a picture of the Bard. The scenario seems as patronizing to human nature...
...wine lobby, the distillers, the civil servants, the farmers-all had their champions popping up to defend their privileges. Wartime Premier Paul Reynaud, an old-fashioned financier, was alarmed. The plan, he said, is "as vague as it is irreproachable." "If I understand you correctly," Reynaud said, "your scenario is like this: you open the frontiers, and there is a massive invasion of foreign goods. There is a terrible shock, and you pick up the wounded at the expense of the state...
Died. Geza Herczeg, 65, Hungarian-born playwright and scenario writer (The Life of Emile Zola, Wonder Bar); of a heart attack; in Rome...
...ravine. Miraculously, he lands in a bed of quicksand; and on hearing his affectionate call, his horse trots over, throws him a rein, and pulls him out. It is certain that no writers in Hollywood, save those with especial creative talent, were permitted to work on the scenario of this film...