Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I've tried for nearly an hour to find an online PDF of Wendell Mayes' script for Go Tell The Spartans, or a transcript of the film's dialogue -- same difference. I'm in love with a soliloquy spoken by Burt Lancaster, playing Major Asa Barber, as he tells a young soldier (played, I think, by Craig Wasson) why he'd been demoted from the rank of Colonel a few years back. Lancaster/Barber...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
"THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS" (1957) Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic is a great movie subject, right? Thrilling story, famous event, legendary protagonist. All true enough, except that dramatizing a man's 33 hours alone in a cramped space is not the easiest thing to do. What director Billy Wilder and co-scenarist Wendell Mayes hit upon was Lindbergh (James Stewart) talking with...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS (1957) Lindbergh’s solo flight across the Atlantic is a great movie subject, right? Thrilling story, famous event, legendary protagonist. All true enough, except that dramatizing a man’s 33 hours alone in a cramped space is not the easiest thing to do. What director Billy Wilder and co-scenarist Wendell Mayes hit upon was Lindbergh (James Stewart) talking to a...
