Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main parts are sharply routed out, particularly by Mark Rydell as the drooling little sadist who gets a perverted kick out of violence, and by Actor Cassavetes, who looks as if his name were Marlon Sinatra. The script, however, is stagy and sometimes dawdling, and when the picture is over, the customer will probably realize that he has not really experienced what life in the slums is like. He has merely gone slumming...
Major efforts next fall will center around the production of an original script, yet to be written by a College student. Roger A. Graef '57, the organization's new vice-president in charge of productions, yesterday announced that the film group would open a competition for the script at the beginning of the fall term...
...that his mother didn't love him, and the problem is cleared up as soon as he finds a pretty little prairie chicken (Felicia Farr) who takes him under her wing. The trouble with the picture, on the other hand, is caused by no lack of affection. The script is a sound piece of work, and Director Delmar Daves has generally made the most of it, and the most of some heart-catching country in Wyoming. What is wrong is the attempt to hitch a buckboard to a diesel. City thoughts from the 20th century keep popping...
...waiter said: "I'm sorry, I can't do that, sir. Regulations." At London's cavernous Victoria terminal Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, towering head and shoulders above B. & K., greeted them with an official smile and a correct speech. Bulganin pulled a speech script out of his pocket, keynoted: "We have to live together on one planet." Outside Victoria, thousands of Londoners coolly watched them drive away...
...Ruritania are far easier to mix on film than they are in fact: so pat a plot raised the question whether two hearts were meeting or merely two dazzling luminaries being drawn to each other. The gala celebrations at Monaco last week began to sound like a Graustark script cynically brought up to date by Ben Hecht. Or so it seemed in the beginning...