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...Scripter Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) is himself no mean writer of hard-boiled melodrama. With his help Director Wilder and his players manage admirably to translate into hard-boiled cinema James Cain's hard-boiled talents...
...idea for Lifeboat first occurred to Director Alfred Hitchcock. John Steinbeck wrote the idea into a story (still unpublished). With Hitchcock's help, Scripter Jo Swerling wrote the story into a screen play. The cinematic problems involved in keeping nine characters and their story dancing for two hours upon the pin point of one lifeboat were staggering. Result: a remarkably intelligent picture, almost totally devoid of emotion. Its characters are not so much real people, derelict upon a real sea, as they are a set of propositions in a theorem. Their story is an adroit allegory of world shipwreck...
Government Girl (RKO-Radio) bump-the-bumps its way with engaging roughness through the crowded bedrooms, offices and baths of wartime Washington. It is the first picture to be produced and directed, as well as written, by top flight Scripter Dudley Nichols. Nichols did not want the job, which was tossed into his lap, like somebody else's damp baby, and he is reported to be unhappy about the result...
Hope carves up his movie scripts too-and if Bing Crosby is also in the picture, they go in for downright slaughter. To one scripter who turned up on the set of Road to Singapore, Hope hollered: "If you hear any of your dialogue, yell Bingo...
More than the other conquered-nations productions, this one is essentially a serious play about individual ideological dilemmas. Those represented here are complex and not very clearly dramatized, and are apt to leave audiences dangling. For this fault, neither Writer Dudley Nichols (scripter of The Informer) nor Director Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion) is entirely to blame: they bit off more than they could chew...