Category: The Star and the Story
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Dark Stranger is a high concept story about a writer meeting a character out of his novel. The concept’s ambitious because the script–from Betty Ulius and Joel Murcott–is so thorough. Edmond O’Brien’s writer isn’t a Bohemian who might buy into the idea. He’s calculating and positively bewildered. The script goes through O’Brien’s investigations, his interrogating,…
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The Back of Beyond has perfectly good production values–it takes place in the West Indies, at a British protectorate island (it’s a Maugham adaptation, where else would it take place)–but director Ripley doesn’t have much going for him. It’s a play on TV, sure, but he doesn’t know when to use his close-ups and when…
The Stop Button 