Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Possibly the director, whose name escapes me, is responsible for this fine acting, and the equally fine music, camerawork, and script. But I am inclined to give Guinness the praise--certainly it is his character which dominates this picture. The Promoter is incontestably another "Guinness movie...
...situations. It was quite obvious that Maggy, flirting with the modern world, would end up renouncing the products of Westinghouse and General Electric for gadgets and religions more tried. There are some amusing scenes in the play, and a few of the performances are quite funny, but McGee's script crupts only in short bursts...
...dialogue, less clever than funny, is built around male lead Tom Ewell, a sort of poor man's Frank Faye who warms up in the second act and remains crisp from there on. But he is never an accomplished enough comedian to rise above the radiogag level of the script...
Everything I Have Is Yours (MGM) is a words-and-music movie in which the music bogs down in the words. The tedious script has to do with the on-again, off-again romance of a husband & wife musicomedy team (Marge and Gower Champion). When Marge retires to have a baby, she is replaced by sultry Understudy Monica Lewis. Jealous Marge has to take her troubles to a divorce lawyer before the couple is finally, laboriously reunited...
...Champions are a likable, talented couple who are fast on their feet, except when they are being tripped up by a molasses-slow script. Among the show's eight numbers, authored by a brace of songsmiths from Johnny Mercer to Johnny Green, is the old (1933) title tune, Everything I Have Is Yours...