Word: taradash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss Andrews, with an enthusiasm that can only be traced to a probable conviction that he was acting in another movie. Although he appears frequently, at one time arriving with a complete New England house boxed and numbered, his effect on the central action is non-existent. Trumbo and Taradash obviously intended Hoxworth to pump some life into the sorry mess, but he remains curiously unaffecting and eerily unaffected. When the tide flows out after 20-some-odd years (how did they ever manage to squeeze it all into three-and-a-half hours?) all we know about this elusive...
...Daniel Taradash and Dalton Trumbo's script manages to establish any characterization at all, it does so by repetition rather than incisive writing. The Reverend Hale, played Swedishly by von Sydow, is so unswervingly dogmatic about his job that he soon exhausts the audience, which watches his predictable life-story with bovine good nature, groaning "Oh no, not again!" at his every line. Julie Andrews stoically survives the pangs of sexual frustration, the pain of childbirth, and the ravages of time, until the make-up department decides she can't take any more, at which point she is allowed...
...backed his investment with a wad that less than a century ago would have bought the island the picture is named after. For $14,000,000 he got Panavision, Color by Deluxe, top-chop talent (Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris), two shrewd scripters (Dalton Trumbo and Daniel Taradash), and a director (George Roy Hill) whose dependability is warm milk to any producer's ulcer...
There Was a Little Girl (adapted by Daniel Taradash from Christopher Davis' novel) is the kind of play that particularly needs everything in it done right-and where almost nothing is. It tells of a well-brought-up 18-year-old girl, played by Henry Fonda's promising 22 -year-old daughter Jane, who is assaulted by two hoodlums and raped by one of them. The dribbling scenes that follow and that involve the girl's upset parents, her inquisitive kid sister, her caddish boy friend, the guilty hoodlum, an uncharitable community and the girl...
...DANIEL TARADASH...