Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman as she gambled away her husband's nest egg, was accused of stealing $5,000, and made a gesture toward suicide before falling into hubby's arms in a roadside motel for the final clinch that solved everything. Lux Video Theater struggled hopelessly with a limp script about some papier-mâché gangsters who were routed by the impassioned prose of a crusading sports reporter...
Johnson's script is a slick, competent job. While the scenario is complex and maybe too long, it makes effective use of flashbacks to fill in the war career of the man in the grey flannel suit. The flashbacks show how he killed seventeen men in the war, and--more convincingly--how he fell in love with an Italian girl in Rome. Returning home, he has a new attitude toward himself and the public relations job which he soon takes. Remaining self-consistent, the action builds up to a series of crucial scenes. If some of the early parts...
...they watch a sinuous dancing girl from Samarkand. After a night in Samarkand, John taunts her, "All other wimmin are like the secon' pressing uh the grape." Going at it that way, the terror of two continents takes almost two full hours to win one girl, so the script just skips the conquest of Asia. It apparently wasn't very important, anyway. This picture reveals that what really mattered to Genghis Khan was love. "She," he sighs wistfully, "is my destiny...
...curvature of the universe. In this nifty interstellar meller, however, the gadgets are so much more glamorous than any girl could be that in many scenes the heroine is technologically unemployed. The special effects should convince any wavering space cadet that it's ether/or; and the literately preposterous script by Cyril Hume will probably strike most grownups as being just as plausible as any irrational number...
...Barry Wood, and Composer Leonard Bernstein. Later Max Liebman contributed another of his spectaculars, Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl: it had a fine satiric idea (U.S. career girls, past and present), a talented cast (Bert Lahr, Nancy Walker, Helen Gallagher, Tammy Grimes. Janet Blair) but an often hackneyed script...