Word: wyler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem of absolute Good and Evil has again come to Boston, this time in a cops-and-robbers version which is likely to have a good deal more popular appeal than either "Billy Budd" or "Darkness at Noon. William Wyler's film production of "Detective Story" is a fast-moving, realistic treatment of personal tragedy, the tragedy of a public servant whose obsessive hatred of evil is carried into his private life and at length wrecks...
...William Wyler had done an imaginative job of adapting Sidney Kingsley's play to the screen. He has been aided no end by the capable acting of both principles and character actors, and by some extremely effective photography...
Detective Story. Broadway Playwright Sidney Kingsley's account of a day in a Manhattan detective-squad room becomes an even better movie as filmed by Director William Wyler; with Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker (TIME...
Detective Story. Broadway Playwright Sidney Kingsley's account of a day in a Manhattan detective-squad room becomes an even better movie as filmed by Producer-Director William Wyler; with Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker (TIME...
...detective-partner, rounds out a lively gallery of Manhattan squadroom characters. For the first time since Champion, Kirk Douglas gets his teeth into a part tough enough to absorb all his biting intensity. Even more impressive, because it is less expected, is the remarkably well-shaded performance that Director Wyler draws out of Actress Parker in the difficult role of the detective's wife...