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...Hollywood did not have Gregory Peck, it would be madness to think of converting this novel into a movie. Alistair MacLean's heroes are not only larger than life-they are a sort of flea's-eye view of the Colossus at Rhodes. An earlier book that MacLean sold to the movies was The Guns of Navarone...
GARY: One of the most unbelievable -- and entertaining -- war pictures in some time, THE GUNS OF NAVARONE follows closely the best-selling novel of Alistair MacLean to tell the story of a band of saboteurs sent to destroy an emplacement of enemy guns on the Greek island of Navarone. The principals include Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn...
...Secret Ways (Heath; U-l), from the thriller novel by Scotland's Alistair MacLean, is, like most of his works (H.M.S. Ulysses, The Guns of Navarone), a derring-documentary that celebrates courage-for-a-cause. Hero Richard Widmark starts out believing that "everybody's learned to live by compromise," changes his mind after he and the audience have spent 112 minutes of sadism, gunplay, torture, capture and escape, cliffhanging, ledge-crawling, escape and capture. It is easily the most relentless movie chase since The Great Train Robbery...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Alistair Cooke tours New York City at night from the Great White Way to the darker, crime-ridden shadows in Night People...
...addition to this creative quartet, there are Alistair Cooke, 51, Manchester Guardian correspondent who has pretty much confined himself to acting as host for Omnibus ("Bob Saudek really wanted Alexander Woollcott, but since he was dead, I was picked"); Production Manager Richard Thomas, 35; Set Designer Henry May, 39; and Treasurer George