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...star in Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend. There was far more artistry in Montgomery's careful delineation of the tortures and cravings of a chronic alcoholic than in the oversimplified happy ending. Lux Video Theater supplied another revival with John Hersey's A Bell for Adano, the prototype of all scripts about relations between lovable U.S. officers and equally lovable natives of occupied countries. Edmond O'Brien was effective as the idealistic Major Joppolo, and Charles Bronson played that familiar folk hero, the tough sergeant with the heart of gold...
...Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Edmond O'Brien in A Bell for Adano...
...believed that a set of characters would give themselves away dramatically if forced into close, catalytic quarters. Favorite places to bring out the best and worst in people have been ships, planes, hotels, tropic outposts, small combat units, African safaris. It remained for Novelist John (A Bell for Adano, The Wall) Hersey to put his characters to the test in a modern-day woodchuck roundup. None of the people in The Marmot Drive like each other very much to begin with. When Hester comes up from New York for a weekend at the out-of-the-way small town...
General Electric Theater (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). John Hodiak in A Bell for Adano...
Paolo Tamburella, the result is an amiable, ingratiating human comedy with overtones of A Bell for Adano and The Little World of Don Camilla...