Word: shawmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classic with a heavy Germanic reverence that sorts ill with the trustbusting, wit-snapping Shavian spirit. His scriptwriter, Novelist Graham Greene, has adapted Shaw's play to the screen almost word for word. The result is talk, talk, talk. And even when the talk is good Shawmanship, Preminger and his cast manage to make it bad acting. Indeed, the whole company plays with such clumsiness that the expert Sir John Gielgud, as Warwick, has to pick his way to histrionic success like a first-string halfback dodging through the scrub...
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