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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading actors were nearly as good as student drama can produce. The enormous Shakespearean bluster and kingly extravagance that so rarely come across in a younger actor are perfectly mastered by Mark Mirsky as the king. He is able to convey this extravagant emotion with a quality of real virility and passion that does not fall short of excellence...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Escurial and Les Precieuses Ridicules | 10/18/1957 | See Source »

...talk fast is that if I talk slowly people will be able to hear what I say and find out how dull and unimportant it really is." But for his return to TV last week on ABC's filmed crime series, The Walter Winchell File, the columnist-turned-actor slowed down his Teletype voice; what he said was still unimportant but, thanks in considerable part to a good script by ex-New York Daily Mirror Reporter Adrian Spies, never dull. The story concerned a psychopathic killer, who haunts a frightened cop, "a man without guile, walking perhaps to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...significance to the history of Judaism and Christianity were too complex to be tailored skillfully for the TV camera. The one-hour show benefited from a rare bit of casting: the role of the late Dr. Sukenik was played with quiet earnestness by his son, Israeli stage and film actor, Yoseph Yadin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Twelve Angry Men. An enthralling battle of minds in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cleverly cross-examined by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose, Actor Henry Fonda (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 14, 1957 | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...Strange One. From Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man)-a slick, sadistic thriller about a Southern military academy and a notable film debut for Broadway Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 14, 1957 | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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