Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...completely at home with the witty Doctor's epigrams, still he has moments of great effectiveness. Earle Edgerton and Dean Gitter play the murderers with unflagging grim conviction, though they do not capitalize on the grotesque idiosyncrasies that Thomas outlined for them in the published script, and seem as a result almost interchangeable. The rest of the cast ranges from adequate to awful...
...Doctor and the Devils was written as a movie script; the story is told in one hundred and forty-one scenes in the printed text, some lasting only a moment. Thomas sent his hypothetical cameraman up and down the streets of a whole city; Joseph Everingham, the adapter, Stephen Aaron, the director, and Webster Lithgow, the designer, have had to cram all this onto the double stage at Kresge. They have wisely stuck close to Thomas' original, and, having attempted the impossible, brought it off better than might have been expected...
Auntie Mame. A fierce, frenetic bout between a rather ridiculous script and a superb Rosalind Russell. In the end, Mame is the winner on a split decision...
Auntie Mame. Rosalind Russell is terrific as the world's most celebrated aun-tique, but as far as the script is concerned, it's a bit of a shame about Mame...
Auntie Mame. Rosalind Russell is terrific as the world's most celebrated auntique, but as far as the script is concerned, it's a bit of a shame about Mame...