Evening star., 1951-03-18
Drama News and Reviews
Life Real and Vivid
In Another Picture
Fourteen Hours Digs for Force of Truth
In Thrilling Tale of Man and the Mob
By Joy Cormody


Another along during past
producers making steady and praewoy in the
discovery of life and reality
This Fourteen superthrier by goth Century
Fox 1t enough like the event unforgettabe
New York suicide leap from the ledge of hotel back 1938to
de the emotions OF the spectator they have not been cured
In years.
like best postwar product from
Italy England and France Fourteen Hours screenplay OF the
people by the people for the people gigantic
is involved in it, including the vast mob gathered the street
below the Jumper and emerge completely
If the spectator were walking among them.
The accent Of the film naturally the demented boy
who stands IA hours the hotel ledge debating jump
The final effect of the film directed by Henry Hathaway however
is make all the others equally Hathaway
and his excellent cast truly dig into life for the soaring drama that
constituted of the performances of the century
the incidental humans the members of the mob
round out the story adapted from Joel Sayres story of
couple of recalling the demened of the
In their actions and reactions Hathaway finds the that
gives form and concseness the story of Fourteen Hours He
wants to show how mans arrangement darranged
millions and his treatment Of subordinate characters the thing
that brings it off.
handful of taxi drivers enormously useful his purpose
They caught in the traffic jam that to last IA hours They
lose days work They make pool when the boy Jump
and then they develop dsaste for gambling such thing
another humans death. This is superb reporting
So the dramatic detail of the gathered
ut the windows Of the buildings the street.-The emoonaly
distraugh mob which shouts warning to the lad Just the
police about to oresta his leap This the high points
Of the anguished story which the mob behavior dramatic
as that of the incpent jumper.
The boy and girl who start fall in love while watching
suicide attempt also important the story the waiter who
the thing begin and figures to be
Stories and the little working girl
and watch except that 'Mr. Reisman might fire her.
wraps the story OF Fourteen Hours" in powerful reality
1t is the quality that puts it class with Of
Hoywoods recent better works. A About
ward Born Yesterday and lesser work
Valley" western that placed character that
action
AS Actor Joseph Gotten correspondent
when becomes imperative for Hollywood discover
the Europeans have done it in their pictures we'll Hollywood will
discover reality"
Miss TheImo Ritter Comes to Town
Miss Thema Ritter who for Academy Award the
maid in All About Eve Washington visitor the
Miss Ritter turned out to be wonderfully
and amusing oscreen copy
weakness that her best stories had better be kept off the
record.
This because they repeated
perhaps diplomatic to handle them
of the stories which Miss Ritter tells Of Thea Ritter
for instance:
mo could be happier with
0or whom she just finished The Mating Season.
ring vehce We had only disagreement during
the whole picture That when he
scene which thought perfect
well he rewroe it. You know how writer's listen
to Ritter So rehearsed it, So read i-jus
how thought being smart They asked read
1t again did, and this time atter and thought
clever than
But, I? not. They had O
it. Then they played back to with the And
going to this to boss Mr. Zanuck and when he
hears it maybe you'll be looking for another job"
Ritter thought and decided GIRL least
until the time tempted to take funny attitude toward
life and art and Thelma Ritters' bosses.
Progress Note Thot Speaks for Itself
From Paramount publicity release arrangements
completed by Paramount whereby Stangs will
take exhaustive examination of all properties both
produced and unpoduced which the studio with to
their possible utilization This will be the the history
Of the m industry that overall appraisal of this kind has