Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beaudine drives his crew and cast hard. His pockets are crammed with slips of pink paper on which he has plotted the night before. The cameras have scarcely stopped on one scene before he is shouting "Over here!" and pointing out the spot for the next shot. If a script girl should point out that the badman is not carrying the same ivory-handled six-shooter as in a previous scene, Beaudine says with a shrug: "If the audience notices a thing like that, we've made a hell of a boring picture...
...might be. Beaudine believes that "planning and being a jump ahead is what counts." He recalls an old two-reeler he was directing when an elderly actress dropped dead in mid-picture. Saddened but unsentimental, Bill stopped shooting only long enough to write her out of the script, with a subtitle reading: "Mrs. Murphy has gone to her relatives...
Shoot First (Raymond Stress-United Artists) is the latest pedestrian movie to try a climb up John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps. Despite a slick script by British Whodunit Expert Eric Ambler, the film trips over its own footage...
...City Is Dark tells its story leanly. The script is crisply underwritten, the photography has a raw, grimy look, and Andre De Toth's direction is skillfully paced for tension. In its harsh images of a bank holdup, a gangster hideout and homicide headquarters, and in its soundtrack teeming with the discordant sounds and gritty lingo of the underworld, The City Is Dark is a muscular little thriller that carries more conviction than many more high-toned movie melodramas...
...with his advisers that television, effectively and informally used, might be the best way of reaching the people. To get professional advice on the intricate problems of staging, the White House called in the New York advertising firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, which blocked out a 44-page script. It was twice revised to suit the President...