Word: well-cast
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...Earl's butler and a member of parliament, is played superbly by Cecil Parker. He is the man who provides the situation humor of the picture; the Earl's remarks are little gems that are usually quite irrelevant to the main flow of action. The other players are all well-cast and move gracefully out of the way when Mr. Matthews' commentaries reach a crescendo of bumbling...
...drinking from a hot-water bag, even the most non-Roman audience cannot help laughing. John Rexine, the pimp, brandishes his curses and his whip as if he had done nothing else all his life, and Paul Broneer and Joe Dallett, as the dupe and his swaggering impersonator, are well-cast. The love scene between Arthur Millward and Brooks Emmons is a spicy reminder that the Romans weren't always dead...
...Well-cast as a dumb, sleepy, semi-inhibited sophomore named Bradislaus ("Boley") Bolenciewcsz, Oakie mugs Clayton College to a national championship in a wacky welter of song & dance, romance and slapstick. With the greatest of ease he polishes off Yale, 82-to-0; Notre Dame, 6-to-5; Minnesota, 27-to-0. He beats Notre Dame with a last-minute touchdown when someone capitalizes on his fear of floods by yelling, "The dam has burst!" - frightening him the length of the field...
...radio talent are in Manhattan and Hollywood. To put on his show in Washington, Producer Morgan had to find and train his own actors. On the reasonable theory that types for a show about the Government could be found in the Government itself, Morgan relied heavily on well-cast amateurs. Of the 200 actors and actresses who are now on call for Report to the Nation, two-thirds are daytime Government employes. Among them Producer Morgan, in search of a regional accent, can be fairly sure to find the real McCoy...
...Since 1895 The Prisoner of Zenda has swashbuckled over the stages of the English-speaking world. In 1922 Rex Ingram produced a silent cinema version. Last week Producer David Selznick gave this colorful hardy perennial the finest treatment it has ever had. Slicked up by Screenwriters Wells Root and John L. Balderston, well-cast, well-acted and beautifully staged, The Prisoner of Zenda will hardly hearten those who want Hollywood to skate out where the ice is thinner (see p. 33) but will certainly give cinemaddicts a rare good show for their money...