Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star-spangled cast, recruited from both stage and screen, exhibits a wide variety of acting styles, but the individual performances are expert. Most unusual casting: Marlon Brando giving a flamboyant performance in the showy role of Mark Antony, Caesar's ruthless avenger. Cinemagoers who saw Brando in The Men and A Streetcar Named Desire may be surprised to hear him, minus his slurring Stanley Kowalski speech mannerisms, clearly enunciating the famous, rabble-rousing funeral oration. Less clear in his performance is that mercurial combination of demagogue and patriot, of force and "quick spirit" that is Antony's character...
...Italy. The images of death are everywhere: in the head of a butchered calf, in skeletons in glass-walled burial crypts, in the traditional Game of the Cross, with its procession of masked and black-robed figures. Malaparte uses sounds as freshly as sights: dramatically, the funereal, off-screen beating of drums dominates an entire dialogue sequence...
...first thing the average man will notice on walking from the marble staircase into this lofty vault is a superfluity of girls. Cliffedwellers, stationed at the numerous tables, sit waiting for their prey. Some pretend to study weighty tomes; others idly thumb the pages of Real Screen Romances, patiently awaiting the right moment. Skeptics, doubting the efficacy of their "Got a match?" technique, are likely to become social theorists on analysis of the Reference Room marriage record...
...citizen and a father, I want my children to have free and unintimidated teachers. Also, I want to continue to be free to choose the best medical care for my family, and I demand the same right for everyone. For the government to establish a political screen for doctors is to endanger the health of the people. I am sure that Harvard and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital hired Dr. Fine for his medical abilities and with no political considerations...
Stalag 17 (Paramount), the 1951 Broadway hit about a Nazi prison camp, is as rowdily entertaining on the screen as it was on the stage. In the play, Authors Edmund Trzcinski and Donald Devan drew on some of their experiences while they were interned with 40,000 other prisoners of war, mostly Russians, Poles and Czechs, in the real Stalag 17 near Krems, Austria. But any similarity between the actual Stalag and its dramatic counterpart is mostly coincidental. In the movie, the fictional events range from suspense (Who is the Nazi spy posing as an American prisoner in Barracks...