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...does not much resemble his celebrated father, Actor Walter Huston (see p. 98), young (35) Huston not only directed Falcon but also wrote the script for it. Seldom has a new director made such a ten-strike on his first picture. Sometime actor, painter, prize fighter, Hollywood scenarist, Mexican Army cavalryman, John Huston accepted only a slight assist from his father in his new venture: as an unlisted bit player, Huston Sr., sieved with bullet holes, appears long enough to deliver the falcon to Sam Spade, mumble a word or two, and fall dead...
Tough-writing Scenarist-Novelist Jim Tully (Beggars of Life, Shanty Irish) declared of the world situation: "It's out of my line. But I think we're going to hell...
...result of all this high-priced maladjustment is terribly funny, terribly upper class. No one could have written it better than Playwright Barry, who has written it often (Holiday, The Animal Kingdom, et al.}. No one could have adapted it better than pink-faced, pink-thinking Scenarist Donald Ogden Stewart. Both writers learned the proper inflections of the polite in the best clubs at Yale. Woven into their saga of the supertaxed is a thorough discussion of snobbery, from which they spring to the conclusion that it is possible to have money and social position and still be nice...
...Scenarist-Fictionist Raine (Tugboat Annie), who criticized Eire's refusal to let Britain use Irish ports as illogical and unrealistic, replies thus to Reader O'Malley's question: "NUAIR ITH-EANN NA H-EIRENNAIGH FEOIL DIA H-AOINE, IOSFAD I ACHT NIL AON GOILE AGAM DO MADADH FEOIL." Translation from the Gaelic: "When Catholic Eire eats flesh on Friday, so shall I- but I have a poor stomach for dog meat...
...screen, due to constructional troubles, these sure-fire ingredients never quite jell into good melodrama. Scenarist John Balderston's script spends so much valuable time setting the scene and building the characters, it has to whisk through Mr. Jones's horrendous visit to Samburan. A line-up of Hollywood's most finished actors, nicely guided by the delicate directional hand of John Cromwell, holds long points, like patient bird dogs, for the chills. Then in a few hurried strokes, the villains are disposed of and it is time for the clinch...