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...juxtaposition of Theresa Wright's high-school-senior naivete and Cotten's unhurried purposefulness Director Hitchcok achieves completely terrifying effects. And the dialogue, written by Thornton Wilder and The New Yorker's Sally Benson, is one of the most lifelike and convincing of many seasons...
...Skin of Our Teeth. Thornton Wilder's brightly cockeyed account of the story of mankind, in which dinosaurs collide with bingo (TIME...
Shadow of a Doubt (Universal) has the makings of a superb film: Alfred Hitchcock directed it; Thornton Wilder and Sally Benson helped write it; two of Hollywood's best young actors-Teresa Wright (Pride of the Yankees) and Joseph Gotten (The Magnificent Ambersons)-play in it. The result: a superb film...
...recondite novel, the two men launched their attack with a great show of ammunition. First cannonading away at The Skin of Our Teeth's "borrowed" form, characters, plot elements, they followed up with scholarly small shot, including the charge that "the great swathing of scarfs and wrappings" of Wilder's Mr. Antrobus (see cut) looked like the "caoutchouc kepi and . .. blaufunx fustian and ironsides jackboots and Bhagafat gaiters and his rubberized inverness" of Joyce's H. C. Earwicker...
...harassed, Playwright Wilder was not at all helpful. "All I can say," he told reporters brusquely, "is to urge those who are interested to read Finnegans Wake and make up their minds for themselves." The few initiated stalwarts who had both read Finnegans Wake and seen the play, were of the opinion that Campbell & Robinson were trying to make headlines out of what should have been footnotes, were confusing influences with imitation. According to Michael Myerberg, the producer of The Skin of Our Teeth, Wilder got his idea when a chicken landed in his lap at Hellzapoppin...