Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book for Snake Oil was like most Drumbeats and Song plots, taking numerous, standard swings at rival colleges, freshman mixers, and Radcliffe food. Written and directed by Michael Vidor, the script and its humor was generally enjoyable, although perhaps overloaded with puns. As Amaryllis-Ann, the oil tycoon's daughter, Rosalind Froug added spark and charm to lines and a characterization which might otherwise have bordered on the routine. Speaking with an outrageous accent or singing with a pleasant, distinct voice, Miss Froug projects an case that is a delight to watch. Her oil-mad father is played by David...
Alain Cluny and Arletty are delightfully evil as the envoys, and Jacques Prevet's script and Marcel carne's direction make Cluny's defection from the diabolic cause later in the Picture seem natural enough-although the viewer may at first be left wondering if this is not just another evil ruse. Satan himself, played by Jules Berry, enters the feudal scene with gusto, elegant clothes, and a most attractive cackle of glee that make his part something out of the ordinary. His expert dematerializations are more to the credit of the cameraman...
...actors can maintain his fevered pace, of course, because they can rest between scenes in filming the picture; but the audience, having no intermissions, cannot. Thus while the cast rush through the script at the top of their voices, the audience, though laughing at the frenetic lines, becomes somewhat less interested in the dramatic and psychological aspects of the story...
...most of what can be said about the film could be better seen; it is an indescribable composite of rough-stuff and whimsey, mugging and dialogue, and the pet jokes of a score of script-writers. It I Had a Million is a very funny movie...
Back-Time: Timing a script backward from end to beginning...