Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the Memphis Blues (originally called Mr. Crump), written by Blues Writer W. C. Handy in 1909 to popularize Mayoralty Candidate Edward Hull Crump...
...Writer-Director Crane Wilbur has concentrated on incidents in which the fugitives collide with the ordinary people who make up a community, and in which both show what they are made of. When the picture was shown to inmates of the Canon City prison recently, some of the recaptured convicts diffidently admitted that it didn't seem entirely true to life, but it is an abler and more honest try in that direction than most movies. There is impressively little hamming-up of story, and the characterizations and the danger and the suspense are unusually real and valid...
...Novelist Evelyn Waugh has pointed out, the bare bones of this story might just as well have come from the pen of France's murky thriller-writer, Georges Simenon, or from mysticky W. Somerset Maugham, or even from a Hollywood scripter ("One can imagine . . . Miss Bacall's pretty head lolling on the stretcher . . .") But needless to say, it is the flesh and mind, not the skeleton, that make The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene's most ambitious book...
...writes like a movie camera. Says Evelyn Waugh, of his books: "It is as though, out of an infinite length of film, sequences had been cut . . . The writer has become director and producer. Indeed, the affinity to the film is everywhere apparent." Several of his books (e.g., The Ministry of Fear, Brighton Rock) have been transmogrified into movies-and one (The Power and the Glory) bowdlerized into Beauty, Hollywood style (as The Fugitive...
...writer is aware, as most of his characters are not, of the depth of mystery that lies behind the sorrow-as behind the pride-of the intellectual...