Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father, is not an actor noted for the range of emotions which he can project, but this time he has found a part which can exploit his taciturn talents. He manages to suggest the battle going on in his character's soul, and a suggestion is really all the script requires. Dorothy McGuire, as the mother, must, on the other hand, show such divergent feelings as straight-laced devotion to duty and strong love for her family. She does so with great assurance. But the most impressive performance is contributed by Anthony Perkins, as the son who wants...
...rest of the cast is rendered ineffective, by the script and the direction, both handled by Steve Salomon. The original French short story by Prosper Merime is difficult enough to believe, but Salomon added to this original fault by making much of the dialogue painfully simple, and by overworking both the theme and meanings through constant narration...
...across the screen, will delight his millions of feminine admirers. Even Moses, a part in which Charlton Heston is ludicrously miscast, looks less like a man who staggers into the desert to find God than one who flies to Palm Springs to freshen up his tan. According to the script, that was the kind of fellow Moses really was, at least as a young man. There are moments, in fact, when it seems that the Seventh Command ment is the only one DeMille is really interested in; to the point where the Exodus itself seems almost a sort of Sexodus...
...improbabilities laced with bad dialogue and characterization, particularly in supporting roles. What he has is a typically exciting spy-war-fare film with a couple of good performances. Oskar Werner, a blond and proud Nordic youth, comes off very well indeed because he has little to say, and no script-writer to louse up his sincerity. Everyone else--particularly Gary Merrill and Richard Basehart--acts in the best tradition of a class B film unit on location in Europe for the first time. This means lots of gutsy tough guys swimming icy Rhines, capturing Germans two-fisted, and helping motherly...
...enjoyed the satirical thrusts and hair-pulling matches. In this version, however, Producer Joe Pasternak has sugared everything up with pretty Metrocolor, with June Allyson, who plays the spirited heroine as a teary little dearie, and with a batch of sentimental tunes. Worse still, the Fay and Michael Kanin script carelessly tosses away one of the play's best ideas. There are men in the picture. In the play, men never appeared; it was as if the world were one vast, closed powder room. And though the scriptwriters have kept the play's plain plot (gossip wrecks marriage...