Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Husking the Corn. Their first act includes Green's hilarious version of the early groping talkies: a pompous baritone named "Donald Ronald" who happily mouths "Honeybunch, you drive me frantic with your smiles," but utters only a half-Nelson eddy of sound. After more silent facial farces, Green joins Betty in loudly husking cornier Shubert operettas (The Baroness Bazooka). There is also a Reader's Digest book condensation that scrunches Gone with the Wind into 22 words...
...York City Ballet's version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker has become something of a Manhattan institution at Christmas time, and CBS chose it for its only live color broadcast of 1958. Once past the opening scene's heavy-footed family frolic, the production made a softly bright delight of the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Avoiding the tricky camera shifts and closeups that most directors try when televising ballet, Director Ralph Nelson kept the episodes sharp, the camera steady. Result: an overall sense of gaiety and space. High point: Allegra Kent, crisp and crystalline...
...Must Die (French). The most powerful religious film of recent years: a Jules Dassin (Rififi) version of The Greek Passion, Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis' attempt to show how the life of Christ coincides with the lives of all men in a condition of continuous Calvary...
Exit Miller. Enter Jean-Paul Sartre. In this French film version of the play, for which he wrote a capable and vivid script, Sartre, the famed existentialist and sometime fellow traveler, has somewhat enlarged the political reference in which...
...Horse's Mouth. The film version does not quite come straight out of Novelist Joyce Gary's mouth, but Alec Guinness is almost the spitting, boozing, wheezing image of Gary's painter, a magnificently hilarious gutter genius...