Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sons and Lovers does not lend itself easily to a movie script, but Jack Cardiff has transformed Lawrence's novel into a superb film. The reader must follow a slow and agonizing series of conflicting passions presented in a style which is often deceptively complex. Through a skillful rearrangement of plot elements and dialogue Cardiff has condensed the novel into an hour and 45 minutes without sacrificing its subtlety and force...
...acting, however, rescues the production. Jere Whiting is a superb Zeus; the crafty and malignant god is aware of his limited power over the free, guiltless Orestes, but exploits anyone else willing to fear him. Whiting's grace and style provide the only light touch in a production too full of screams and heavy gestures. Philip Kerr gives a solid performance as Orestes. He seems as unable as I to account for Orestes' sudden commitment, but he understands perfectly each stage in Orestes' development. Thanks largely to Kerr, the play is clear and powerful...
...anybody yet knows, Drumbeats and Song may have in The Pajama Game a superb show or a shuddering wreck of a production. In any case, the organization behind the production, Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid, is no wreck at all. It came into being in 1949, for the purpose (so runs the Charter) of giving scholarship aid to "deserving and needy undergraduates without reference to scholastic standing and with preference given to those who have contributed significantly to college life...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, treats the relationship of God and man with more humor than awe, but the superb acting ability of Fredric March and Douglas Campbell supplies the necessary power and the glory...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, treats the relationship of God and man with more humor than awe, but the superb acting of Fredric March and Douglas Campbell supplies the necessary power and the glory...