Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faulkner has contributed to moviemaking in general the bonanza idea of a degenerate family in the degenerate South, but at this point, he and the movies part company Hollywood is currently enjoying an Aristotelian vogue, observing the unities of time and place. The action of this version of The Sound and the Fury takes place in two days, with no flashbacks. Furthermore, to add insult to injury, none of it takes place at Harvard. The most Faulknerian aspect of the movie is its striking similarity to The Long Hot Summer, another film supposedly based on Faulkner...
Ever since Poet Archibald MacLeish's version of the Biblical Book of Job, the verse-play J.B., opened on Broadway last December (TIME, Dec. 22), viewers and reviewers have been choosing up sides to attack and defend MacLeish's Biblicism or lack of it, his humanism or his sentimentality...
Compulsion (Zanuck Productions; 20th Century-Fox) is a terse, tense, intelligent melodramatization of "the crime of the century": the Leopold-Loeb murder case of 1924. Richard Murphy's screenplay borrows many of its keenest scenes from Meyer Levin's Broadway version of his own bestselling casebook of the crime (TIME, Nov. 12, 1956), preserves in the film (103 minutes) all the essential details of the play (180 minutes), eliminates only a few of the far-out psychiatric references. One important addition: a taut sense of dramatic sequence...
...guise of a wealthy modern businessman. Though Archibald MacLeish's version lacks Biblical richness of speech and rigor of logic, it brings excitement to the theater...
Departing from the experimentalism of Pirandello and the social satire of Wilde, Repertory Boston has added a competent adaptation of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory to its collection. The addition is a fine one: this stage version of one of the better recent novels stimulates thought, and receives, under Stephen Aaron's direction, a careful and well-paced performance...