Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monty's Double (at the Exeter). A witty script in which Clifton James, playing three roles, re-enacts the true and magnificent hoax that the British played on the German high command in World...
...view, the picture is exceptional. Words are used as if they cost money. Much of the story is told through the camera lens by hands, lips, eyes, gestures. The film could easily have been sensationalized. Restraint and tasteful selection should be credited to Robert Anderson, who did the script...
Between scenes, Gus Solomons and Joyce Daniels provide interesting primitive dances to some wildly orgiastic music. But they are unfortunately not worked into the script carefully enough, and on some of their Pied Piperesque entrances, leading a crowd of fascinated observers, one feels that one is suddenly in the midst of a scene from another play...
...some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak in precise, cultivated accents that are miles away from the Negro slums of South Carolina. For that matter, Sidney Poitier's Porgy is not the dirty, ragtag beggar of the Heyward script, but a well-scrubbed young romantic hero who is never seen taking a penny from anybody. And Dorothy Dandridge, who emphasizes the elegance of her bones more than the sins of the flesh, makes something of a nice Nellie out of bad Bess...
...genius and a devil" but turns out to look like nothing worse than Alan Ladd with eyebrows. "Don't ever think for an instant," Sister Luke is warned, "that your habit will protect you." After teasing this tedious notion about for the better part of an hour, the script clumsily returns to its proper theme: love of God v. love of mankind...