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Unburdened with any particular sense of the realistic or humane, Stalag 17 is a heartless jape that manages to be both lively and amusing. The sardonic talents of Producer-Director-Co-Scenarist Billy (Sunset Boulevard) Wilder are well tuned to these rather ghoulish goings on. Taking the action out of the barrack confines and into the barbed-wire compound at intervals, he has made a fluent film of the play. He has also got crisp characterizations from his cast. William Holden gives one of his quietly competent performances as a cynical G.I. Otto Preminger and Sig Ruman play comedy Nazis...
Only One Outrage. As for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, said its Secretary Henry Allen Moe, "the most outrageous mistake of all" was a 1935 grant to Scenarist Alvah Bessie, who later became one of the Hollywood Ten jailed for contempt of Congress. But except for Bessie and two or three others, said Moe, the foundation had done well: like its sister organizations, it had never knowingly subsidized a subversive, and it never would...
Died. James Gow, 45, onetime newspaperman who collaborated with Scenarist Arnaud d'Usseau on two hit melodramas for Broadway (Tomorrow the World, Deep Are the Roots) and the movie thriller Fourteen Hours; of hypertension; in Manhattan...
Died. Philip G. Epstein, 42, who, with his twin brother Julius, made up one of Hollywood's top scenarist teams, chiefly as adapters of plays (The Man Who Came to Dinner), novels (Chicken Every Sunday) and short stories (My Foolish Heart), Oscar winners in 1943 for their screenplay of Casablanca; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
Producer Robert Sparks never seems quite clear what he is about and Scenarist Frank Fenton has written much of the lovers' dialogue in a symbolic shorthand that adds to the general confusion of motive. As a result, what began with a provocative situation soon degenerates into some routine chase sequences and ends with a mawkish off-to-prison finale...