Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that death plunge from which Holmes had later (in the face of a clamoring public) to be restored to life. The plunge mattered less in the present case, since Holmes was scarcely alive before. Actor Rathbone made a very recognizable but far from inimitable figure of him; in the script Holmes was not much of a brain, and in the acting he was not much of a personality...
...Doctor and the Devils, by Dylan Thomas. An outstanding film script inspired by the notorious case of the 19th century Edinburgh body snatchers, Burke and Hare, and the anatomist they worked for (TIME...
Scarcely a petal of each play is preserved-an air of one, a snatch of another -but the writers of the script (Gilliat worked with Leslie Baily, whose Gilbert & Sullivan Book was a 1952 bestseller) have deftly wired them all together to make a charming, if slightly artificial musical forget-me-not. Some of the charm is due to the spirited stuffiness of the Victorian settings and the muted Technicolor. Best of all, several members of the famed D'Oyly Carte company (Martyn Green, Thomas Round, Gron Davies) give silken-fine performances...
Despite its good looks and good music, Gilbert and Sullivan never quite comes together as a rounded piece of entertainment. The script so weakens the true story of the great collaborators that it is blown about like a dead leaf in each gust of song. The real human interest lies in the history of Sullivan's attempts to make himself "a Bach, when he was only...
...production of America's oldest continuous theatrical had included a scene spoofing "Arthur Godfrey and His Buddies," but recent developments forced drastic changes in the script. Fitz Hugh Brown, the director of theatricals, would not disclose La Rosa's part...