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WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART (344 pp.) -Pefer Viertel-Doubleday...
Pete did not understand, and thereby hangs the tale. For Scripter Pete Verrill is not many changes of underwear away from Peter Viertel, the author of White Hunter, Black Heart, who in 1951 spent some months in the Congo as scriptwriter with the company of The African Queen, which was directed by John Huston. Viertel invited Huston to read the manuscript. Said Huston: "You can write anything you want about...
...Live a Little. Wilson, as Viertel introduces him, is an extreme type of the Hemingway generation. Liquor all day, women all night, and then off to Kenya to get straight with God by horn-wrestling a buffalo. In Wilson's case, it's off to the Congo to shoot a few elephants before making a movie in the middle of the jungle...
...Hunter Viertel himself can scarcely have a white heart in the matter. He brought his own game crashing down with what must seem a little like a shot in the back. Yet perhaps the larger denizens of Hollywood are fair game; certainly a great deal can be excused in a jungle book as fast and exciting as Viertel's. It would probably make a good movie, like The African Queen...
Adapted by Scripter Peter Viertel from George Howe's Christopher Award-winning 1949 novel, Call It Treason, the. picture is a bang-up job of moviemaking. To tell the story of German prisoners of war who worked as U.S. spies, Director Anatole (The Snake Pit) Litvak goes the semi-documentary technique one better: he uses locations in 16 German cities and towns not merely as backgrounds but as living sets to re-enact the chaos of a battered, squalid Germany in the critical winter of 1945. The canvas is broad, the detail meticulous, the effect overwhelmingly real...