Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Fresnay, the script, and the photography are at their best, some splendid scenes result. A galley episode, in which the priest rushes down to relieve a fainting oarsman, provides the film's most exciting moment. The photography by Renoir, done almost over-zealously in the French style of realism, finds most of the 17th century poor either consumptive or deformed. This grimness underscores the need for a saint, but an occasional glimpse of healthier and happier peasants might have brightened the realism of a vividly performed script...
...when editors started calling Pearson to find out why he had broken the release date, no one was more surprised than Pearson himself. He had not even been to the briefing, or known about the one-week embargo. Actually, Pearson had got hold of the film script long before, had broadcast an H-bomb description three months ago with almost as many details as last week's column. No one had said anything about it. Last week's col umn, said Pearson, was written only be cause "I didn't have anything better to write about...
...hair proportionately longer than that of less talented musicians. Elizabeth moves him into her apartment, but she keeps getting in his hair when he wants to practice, and pretty soon he walks out. On the rebound, she marries an American piano student (John Ericson) whose childishness, interpreted by the script as glowing Americanism, illuminates dark old Europe about as effectively as a ten-watt bulb...
...networks and advertisers like TV parlor games because they are cheap. 20 Questions costs only a modest $3,500 a week. Quiz shows have no script cost, the same stage set can be used year in and year out, and the performers are far less expensive than big-name comedians or singers. But one sad discovery has tempered the networks' enthusiasm. Explains Robinson: "Except for the rare ones, quiz shows have a very definite audience ceiling...
...Peter Lawford is his usual suave self. Jack Lemmon breaks into celluloid as Gladys' camera happy boyfriend. The latter, star of the 1946 Pudding show, seems to have picked up a new habit of dress since leaving Harvard, but his acting ability is only hampered by some of the script's insipidly sentimental lines...