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...framed an Alabama melodrama that etched its issues in black and white. Of what was lovable, on the other hand, she made a tomboy poem as full of hick fun as Huck Finn, a sensitive feminine testament to the Great American Childhood. In this film Director Robert Mulligan and Scenarist Horton Foote have translated both testament and melodrama into one of the year's most fetching and affecting pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boo Radley Comes Out | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

...real defectives. But time and again the real defectives steal the show. At first the spectator can see only their defects, but at last he sees what lies behind the defects: children much like other children, children who wonderfully touch the heart. At this point. Scenarist Mann says simply and effectively what he fundamentally means to say: "These people have a right to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love Is Not Enough | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...horrors all together-sort of like watching an Ugly Contest. Karloff plays an admirable King Leer; Price wears a hairline mustache that looks like a third lip; Lorre at his loveliest suggests a contented tarantula. The real star of the show is Scenarist Richard Matheson, who has written three or four of the hairiest lines of the year. One of them is delivered by Lorre in a spooky cellar hung with colossal cobwebs, choked with sickly dust, and populated with rustling vermin. "Gee," he mutters to Price as he glances uneasily about the scene. "Hard place to keep clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ugly Contest | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

David and Lisa, shot for less than $200,000 by a man and his wife (Director Frank and Scenarist Eleanor Perry) who had never made a movie before, tells the anguishing and tender story of two psychotic adolescents (Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin) who meet in the pit of madness and help each other to climb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jan. 18, 1963 | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

David and Lisa, shot for less than $200,000 by a man and his wife (Director Frank and Scenarist Eleanor Perry) who had never made a movie before, tells the anguishing and tender story of two psychotic adolescents (Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin) who meet in the pit of madness and help each other to climb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 11, 1963 | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

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