Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anastasia. Two years passed before even the girl herself, closeted in a mental hospital, could piece together a coherent story of how, aided by two brothers named Tchaikovsky, she had been carried out of the cellar and across Russia into Rumania. No Tchaikovsky ever showed up to verify the tale, though "Anastasia" claimed to have married one of them. She found many friends to champion her cause, even after one enterprising German journalist discovered that a Polish girl named Franziska Schanzkowsky had disappeared from a Berlin boarding house shortly before the young woman's discovery in the canal...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m.. CBS). Tale of the Comet, with Hal March as a TV comic victimized by the ratings system...
...drags on for 100 minutes, during which she falls in love with him. is rejected, publishes her expose (which starts a Senate investigation), publicly admits she printed a pack of lies about the general and, in the last frame, wins him as her very own. To film this unlikely tale, a John P. Marquand novel, Melville Goodwin, USA (TIME, Oct. 1, 1951), was bought and, in true Hollywood fashion, not used. Instead, the story merely borrowed the names and professions of Marquand's characters and was thrown together as a frothy comedy, presumably on the theory that...
...kept on writing. An Outcast of the Islands was a tale of progressive moral ruin, told with a ruthless Dostoevskian logic up to a point of no return. Lord Jim, which read like a boy's story, was actually a painful parable of the penance a man must do to reclaim honor lost in one moment of cowardice. In Heart of Darkness, the most enigmatic of his novels, Conrad used as background his dismal experiences in the Belgian Congo. Its protagonist Kurtz is a portrait of a man whose pure will-to-power has squandered itself hopelessly. In the epigraph...
Somehow, Dashiell Hammett picked up the reputation of an ultra-realist. He's far from that. The very picture of a golden falcon, encrusted with jewels, sought by a group of incredible characters who roam the world searching for it, is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows; there is little romance...