Word: zinneman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land it was set in, and Escape from Fort Bravo took a fresh look at Hollywood's tired old Indian wars. Fred Zinne-man's From Here to Eternity did far more than the usual crude job of shoveling a bestselling novel through the censorship screen. Zinneman's epic is as moving a tale of men among men as all but the finest documentaries of World...
Unlike the book, the film version of From Here to Eternity does not bury its dramatic aspects under a heavy mass of superfluous detail and fuzzy verbiage. Where James Jones spent pages describing the torments of the penal stockade at Sheffield Barracks in Hawaii, director Fred Zinneman achieves the same effects by a few shots of a brutal guard and several whispered conversations. The scenario is a masterpiece of ingenuity and economy; furthermore, it manages to take such material as a syphilitic husband, a wanton wife, a soldier-infested brothel, and the ordinary obscene talk of the Army and translate...
Finally, the Best Director often wins more on reputation than result. Cecil B. DeMille, who was nominated for The Greatest Show On Earth-which was far from it-has long been The Grand Old Man of Hollywood Epics. But his work was not so forceful as that of Fred Zinneman in High Noon, nor so bold and imaginative as that of John Huston in Moulin Rouge. The question is: will the Academy continue to choose The Grand Old man of the Year, or will it get back to making honest appraisals of current work...
...direction of Fred Zinneman comes up to his high mark in The Search and The Men. He neither patronizes his Italian civilians, typecasts his G.I.s nor falsifies his combat scenes, which prove as taut as any fiction footage yet shot about World War II. But the picture gets into trouble after it gets back to the U.S. The hero's psychological troubles and diagnosis fall as patly into place as in a clinical report. When the script attempts to show him growing up emotionally in time for a hopeful ending, the change is so drastically telescoped and hastily motivated...
...delicate features and impressive sincerity made her the "discovery" of three different moviemakers in search of talent. The most recent, Teresa's Scripter Stewart Stern, came across her in Rome after she had made her first movie (Tomorrow Is Too Late) in Italy. After he met her, Director Zinneman thought "she was one of the few genuine film talents I have ever known...