Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Bel Geddes and Fonda turn in fairly wooden performances, but there is not much they can do with a script that requires them to mouth such gems as, "God, you're sweet" The minor parts are not badly done, but this is essentially a two-person play. And that includes the audience...
...soldiers with signs, such as "Gum Chum," and Big Four ministers playing the board game "Diplomacy." What mars the film, apart from acting flaws, is chiefly an over-reliance on corn and gag lines, like Miss Seberg's "I always thought you were a snake, you snake." If the script is supposed to be satire on the usual Hollywood cliches, it does not come off as such, but sounds merely trite itself...
Only when he threw away the script, turned on his famed charm and hand-pumped his way through crowded rooms did Rockefeller make the impression he sought. And in the most careful, subtle way, he limned the first faint outlines of his campaign strategy. Rockefeller, the independent, offhanded (and astute) winner of the 1958 New York campaign for Governor, is out to convince the party regulars that 1) he is a serious organization Republican; 2) he has no quarrel with the Administration, but the country needs new men for new and unprecedented problems; and 3) competition among candidates is healthy...
...Polaroid cameras. On NBC's Ford Startime fortnight ago, Dean Martin greeted Guest Frank Sinatra with a cheery "What's this you're wearing-My Sin?" And on a Crosby-Sinatra show, one of whose comedy skits involved the rest rooms of a filling station, the script specified Union...
...Sawyer in the Alps. Based on James Ramsey Ullman's Banner in the Sky, the film describes the Alpine adventures of a teen-aged Swiss village boy (James MacArthur) who vows he will be the first climber to reach the top of the Matterhorn (known in the script as The Citadel) or die in the attempt as his father died before him. He joins the expedition of an English mountaineer (Michael Rennie) as a porter, and at the climax of the attempt discovers the long-sought passage to the summit...