Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation, also fairly routine, has been treated times without number on film. But it is not really the story that dooms The Chase. It is rather the slow, loquacious, unclimactic storytelling: there is the flash of gunfire now & then, but most of the lead is in the script...
...fast and broad, the chases wild and merry. As Goldstein himself puts it: "Nobody likes my pictures but the public." For the more mature trade, Goldstein has turned out such pictures as The Egg and I and numerous westerns. But he avoids sophisticated comedy. Once, turning down a script, he explained to Writer Don McGuire: "Don, you dig whimsy. I dig whimsy. But does the public dig whimsy? Not with a clam shovel...
...great deal of its success can be attributed to the actual facts of the case. Operation Cicerco is a script-writer's dream, loaded with enough surprises and ironic twists (including the fact that the Germans refused to believe that the documents were genuine) to fill half-a-dozen run-of-the-mill espionage thrillers. In addition, Mankiewicz's screenplay contains some effective frills of its own: a love affair between the valet and a former employer, a beautiful Polish countess, some bright epigrammatic dialogue, and an array of skillfully drawn diplomatic officials. Particularly clever use is made...
James Mason plays the villain with just the right amount of quietness and self-assurance; if, at times, he seems a bit too suave and sophisticated, the fault lies with the script. Daniel Darrieux has comparatively few lines but her sly captivating smile suggests the essential shrewdness and unscrupulousness of the countess better than any script could...
...Communist influence in Hollywood is such that 'every one' of eleven stories, selected as the best for filming out of 150 read by the studio over a period of six months, had to be discarded because 'information concerning one or more persons involved in the past writing of the script or original story' showed that those writers were suspected of Communist ideas or sympathies...