Word: scene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film has its moving moments. The confrontation scene with the revolting young nephew has a slimy authenticity, and the cook's death is both sentimental and heartrending. The tour of Rome is fairly exciting, and some eye-filling episodes (Agfacolor) have been recorded in the Vatican. The main trouble with the picture: a bad screenplay that requires 14 actors, provides only two real parts...
...Moore) is having trouble with her light-skinned daughter, who is yearning for the day when she will be old enough to leave home and pass herself off as white. The day comes, the girl goes, and the scriptwriters settle down to the point of the picture: an interminable scene in which the poor old Negro maid dies of a broken heart. Excerpts...
...Cazale's hair is somewhat thinner than one would expect in a sixteen-year-old, and at times he mumbled more like a troubled suburbanite than a New Hampshire swain. Certainly nothing could be said against Miss Weed's interpretation of Emily, which became truly moving in the final scene of the play. But she looked "dressed down" to meet the sixteen-year-old requirement, and was simply not the willowy schoolgirl expected...
...most polemical essay of the five, "Religion in Harvard" by Llewelyn Thomas derides "the neo-fascism . . . appearing everywhere on the American scene," the "capitalistic-based administrators" who run the University, Christian choir-singers who sell out on their faith for two bucks a throw, and concludes with an affirmation that "the number of blobs at Harvard is infinite." No doubt this will prompt at least one 'Cliffie to prod her roommate with "See, I told you, we should have gone to Ohio State where men are really...
...phone as he did watching the actors, yet seeing enough to scribble endless notes of advice; e.g., "Keep Myrna alive." He supervised the cutting of Jeanne Crain's lines ("She's no Duse"), and hesitated not a moment to order the taping of an entire scene from The Browning Version when one actor showed a tendency to blow his lines. (This last maneuver, by a man who has always championed live TV and frowned on tape and other mechanical aids, was as revealing as W. C. Fields's inspired advice to a harassed comic contemporary: "Never mind...