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Friday with Garroway (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Guest: Pianist Alec Templeton...
...script puts Father Brown (Alec Guinness) up to his usual trick of bringing a criminal not to the judicial bar but to the communion rail. His prospective proselyte : a famous international crook called Flambeau (Peter Finch). The cunning old fisher of men lets the devil bait the hook-with a pretty widow (Joan Greenwood). Widows, as somebody in the picture remarks, are irresistible because "if you are better than the first [husband], they are grateful, and if you are worse, they are not surprised...
Startford does, however, contain an enlightening lesson in movie merchandising. Alec Guinness is billed as its star. Once, Mr. Guinness rides by on a bicycle, waving. The other time he appears, he tells a young actor a few things about the trade. There was a line a block long outside the Kenmore...
Sunday with Garroway (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Two hours of top entertainment, with Gina Lollobrigida, Director Joe Mankiewicz, Pianist Alec Templeton...
...place since Hollywood in the silent days. In such marvelously handwrought hilarities as Tight Little Island, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, and The Titfield Thunderbolt, the Baling people have created, for the first time, an inimitably English screen style: "the little comedy." (Ealing's three Alec Guinness comedies alone have probably grossed about $2,250,000 in U.S. theaters...