Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always a pleasure to watch the two in action, and Nigel Patrick and Helen Sherrer give admirable support to the whimsy. When the picture does occasionally misfire, it is only because the script writers mis-measured that formula of slapstick and sophistication which the English usually prescribe with such success...
Directress Audry worked with a hard-eyed and knowing script written by her sister, famed French Novelist Colette (who took her story from a 1949 English novel, Olivia, by an anonymous author). The movie tells of a lonely English teenager, Olivia, who is sent to a French finishing school. From the first day, sad little Olivia joins in the twitter of happiness that seems to fill her new world. She is too young to understand the possibilities of evil that...
...script will be written and directed by Jack M. Knutson '54 and Gordon D. Barnes '56. William L. Edwards '56 will be the producer, and Lewis M. Schneider '56 and Stephen J. F. Arpante '56 will handle the photography...
Thomas' own language intensifies the drawback of reading any work designed for radio. He achieves poetry in his choice of phrase, not in formal rhythm; and he has dotted the script with Anglo-Welsh words, melodic to the ear but distracting visually. Also the same use of alliteration which often makes the play smoothly sing out, is occasionally handled less skillfully: "Now in the light she'll work, sing, milk, say the cows' sweet names and sleep until the night sucks out her soul and spits it into the sky. In her life-long love light, holily Bessie milks...
...rest of the film's pedigree matches its cast. With script by Faulkner from Hemingway's novel and Hawkes as director, there are so many clever lines that even bit players have good roles. This is the "if-you-want-me-just-whistle" and the "Hong Kong Blues" film. It has Bacall at the height of her slinky period and she sings "How Little We Know." It comes to grips with the cosmos and sums it up in the single question "was you ever bit by a dead bee?" There are wise cracks and tough talks with sizzling looks that...