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...classic tide-turning defense speech-he threw in everything including St. Patrick, his children's dog Checkers, and Pat Nixon's good old Republican cloth coat-and went off the air in tears, thinking that he had made a mess of it. Minutes later, Producer Darryl Zanuck called to deliver an old pro's verdict: "The most tremendous performance I've ever seen...
Compulsion (Zanuck Productions; 20th Century-Fox) is a terse, tense, intelligent melodramatization of "the crime of the century": the Leopold-Loeb murder case of 1924. Richard Murphy's screenplay borrows many of its keenest scenes from Meyer Levin's Broadway version of his own bestselling casebook of the crime (TIME, Nov. 12, 1956), preserves in the film (103 minutes) all the essential details of the play (180 minutes), eliminates only a few of the far-out psychiatric references. One important addition: a taut sense of dramatic sequence...
...going to do this scene"). A mild man, Wilder survived by treating Monroe like a fine Swiss watch: "Only it doesn't start ticking when you just wind. You have to shake it a little-not just any old way-but just so." ¶ Producer Darryl Zanuck, fervent avuncular friend of Left Bank Singer Juliette ("the wild one") Greco, rode into battle for his protégée. Through a London gossip column, U.S. Moviemaker Carl Foreman irritably reported that Zanuck was over-pushing Greco for a fat part in Foreman's new picture, Guns of Navarone...
...Roots of Heaven (Darryl F. Zanuck; 20th Century-Fox), adapted from Remain Gary's international bestseller (TIME, Jan. 20), appears to be one of those movies that are more exciting to make than to see. To make this one, Holly woodsman Darryl Zanuck and 130 dauntless actors and technicians were flown into darkest Africa to the searing barrens beyond the Hill of the Demons in the French Cameroons. The demons did not appear personally, but the place was hell, all right. By day the temperature stood as high as 140°, at night it never sank below...
When Producer Darryl Zanuck mala-prophesied that the national institution of the '30s known as Shirley Temple "would be good every year of her life as long as she lived," few believed him. Hollywood realists knew that most peewee paragons grew up to be monsters or misfits, kept little of their young luster. But the opening chapter of NBC's Shirley Temple's Storybook last week sent viewers on a wildly nostalgic binge and helped make good the ancient Zanuck prophecy. Shirley Temple, now a full-bodiced 29, had bridged a whole generation without losing so much...