Word: scripter-director
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Adapting a play by John Dighton, Scripter-Director Launder gives them both plenty of opportunities. Sim plays the smug, hand-rubbing headmaster of a boys' school who is thrown for a loss when a mixed-up Ministry of Education dumps a girls' school on the premises. ("Someone," he moans, "is guilty of an appalling sexual aberration.") Headmistress Rutherford is the formidably efficient battle-ax who leads the invasion, tackles one of the problems of boys-&-girls-together by canceling biology classes...
Mother Don't Tell Me (20th Century-Fox) is a comic elaboration of one of the hard facts of medicine: it's tough to be a doctor's wife. In milking it for laughs, Scripter-Director Claude Binyon manipulates the fact into arrant Hollywood fiction, and too often forces the comedy into farce. But thanks mostly to an ingratiating performance by Dorothy McGuire, the movie passes the time pleasantly...
...Dark Passage. A silly story becomes a good melodrama, thanks to Humphrey Bogart and Scripter-Director Delmer Daves (TIME, Sept...
...part they can play in creating erotic and moral atmospheres. There are even moments when handsome Linda Darnell embodies the natural force she is portraying. And Edward Everett Horton somehow manages to suggest that a Tsarist rake would look and act like Edward Everett Horton. But too much of Scripter-Director Douglas Sirk's effort is polysyllabic, "cultered" and Little Theaterish...