Thornton Wilder creates a very interesting and different approach in his play "Our Town". He makes use of a stage manager and very little setting by effectively drawing the initial attention of his audience. He also uses a very low-action and day-to-day plot to appeal to a wide variety of readers by providing scenes and occasions which the majority of people experience. Wilder's unusual and original idea of ... to earth" character, which gives information and insight on the other characters. He actually acts as other people with small parts from time to time. This is a different idea which W...

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... Jack H Skirball Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Scr: Thornton Wilder, Alma Reville, Sally Benson Phot: Joseph Valentine Mus: Dimitri Tiomkin Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Patricia Collinge, MacDonald Carey, Henry Travers, Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford "... if you ripped the front off houses..." Shot mostly on location in the small Northern California town of Santa Rosa in the Summer of 1942, ... it is a curious, knowing and prescient film, far from the grand-standing, detached, episodic set-piece spectacle of the North by Northwest-like Saboteur (1942) that immediately preceded it. By enlisting ...

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