Word: scenarists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 20,000 odometered miles later, the Rolls turns up in Genoa. Climbing aboard are a U.S. gangster (George C. Scott) and his moll (Shirley MacLaine), both battling Scenarist Terence Rattigan's notion of dialogue for ugly Americans. "So it leans," cracks Shirley at the tower of Pisa. The fun picks up when Scott returns to the States to eradicate a business associate, leaving his two snazzy chassis in the care of Bodyguard Art Carney. On a swimming expedition, Shirley and the Rolls are left unguarded just long enough to entertain Alain Delon, utterly persuasive as a gigolo...
...Riley's Back in Town has already backfired: Movie Newcomer Michael Parks describes the vehicle as his "first mistake." If so, Parks makes the best of it. But the film itself abundantly fulfills the promise of mediocrity put forth even more forcefully by Playwright-Scenarist William Inge, who demanded that his name be deleted from the opening credits...
...thudding along. Thud it does, because it lacks the tough, painful insights that made Marty's small world loom large. Actress Page, who can make a wallflower look like a man-eating plant, strives to read depth and pathos into a role that cracks under the strain, for Scenarist Tad Mosel's out-of-towners can only be taken lightly. They are stereotypes swathed in homespun, plain folks played for hicks...
Baby the Rain Must Fall is a synthetic little Southern drama, all fancied up with yokel color and art-film flourish. The folksiness carries over from Scenarist Horton Foote's Broadway and TV play, The Traveling Lady. The flourishes must be charged to Producer Alan Pakula and Director Robert Mulligan who were teamed more happily in such films as To Kill a Mockingbird and Love with the Proper Stranger...
Ostensibly, the girls are pitiable embodiments of evil-monsters created by callousness, oppression, and the unnatural conditions of servitude. But Director Nico Papatakis and Scenarist Jean Vauthier twist this black theme into a cinema of absurdity that falls somewhere between the Marx Brothers and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? In its liveliest moments, Les Abysses is unwittingly hilarious, an amateur Grand Guignol about a pair of sleazy, sullen chambermaids running amuck in Bedlam. When they are not dancing or screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress...