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...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller-a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME. April...
...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller- a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...
...Strange One (Horizon; Columbia) is the film version of End As a Man, a study of extracurricular activities at a Southern military academy, published in 1947 by Novelist Calder Willingham (who attended The Citadel in 1940). The movie may stimulate some furious second-thinking in many readers who (like James T. Farrell) thought that Willingham had made "a permanent contribution to American literature." With most of its sensationally fleshy parts removed, the bare-bones plot stands revealed as no more-and no less-than a cleverly constructed thriller...
...admission is the author's: it was Calder Willingham himself who wrote the screenplay-which in fact is carved out of the Broadway play that Willingham carved out of his novel in 1953. The film begins at the climax of the play with a magnificent instance of what writers call a "blind lead." The moviegoer is asked to swallow a veritable camel of complex motive and movement, and to swallow it in the dark. For half an hour, while a massive and subtle scheme of revenge takes form before his eyes, the moviegoer has almost no idea what...
...Mystery. Actress Maureen Stapleton also stumbled on the hazard of a bad play presented over NBC's Philco Playhouse (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). Incident in July is the poor second best of Novelist-Playwright Calder Willingham, who adapted his own novel, End as a Man, a couple of seasons ago into an unexpected Broadway hit. Incident is about a married woman, incapable of having children, who pours her maternal affection on a 19-year-old boy, causes a painful scandal, finally realizes that she ought to adopt a child. The writing was aimless, the plot pointless, and Actress...