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Paul Price, as Tom, has the best role, and steals the play's few exciting scenes. He is terribly funny when he frustrates Tolen by taking apart the bed in which he hoped to seduce Nancy, and hilarious in demonstrating "how to tame a lion" with Nancy in the feline role. Hopefully, the theatre company will keep him on hand until they find a better play...
...CASE OF LIBEL, adapted by Henry Denker from Louis (My Life in Court) Nizer's account of the Quentin Reynolds-Westbrook Pegler libel fracas, is tame theater fare, but courtroom drama buffs may relish it, and Van Heflin is a peppery paladin of justice...
...agree to accept government censorship of the film. Top level conferences in the President's office are shown, but the soundtrack has been removed. This restriction seems strange since an uncensored version of the film was shown at the New York film festical and the scene in question seemed tame enough: Kennedy's congressional liaison, Larry O'Brien, warns that a televised address would endanger civil rights legislation, while the Attorney General passionately maintains that the President has a moral obligation to address the nation...
...Libel has been adapted by Henry Denker from a chapter in Lawyer Louis Nizer's bestseller, My Life in Court. The case, though veiled, is Newsman Quentin Reynolds' winning libel suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Since the element of suspense is nonexistent, the result is fairly tame and lethargic, except for those who relish every predictable cliche of courtroom stagecraft...
...comedy about civil wrongs and a Negro who tries to right them. In 1961 his play read like a rousing Rights-of-Manifesto and became a long-run hit on Broadway. But times have changed. Spoken almost word for word from the screen, the same text now seems tame in its protest and dated in its terms-at times one almost wonders if the actors are in blackface. But in one sense the de fect is a virtue. It demonstrates dramatically just how far the Negro's cause has come in the last two years...