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...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Dean Martin, Susan Hayward and Martin Balsam engage in a political chess game for the governorship of California...
...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson uses sex to ski through four separate playlets, and the trip is thoroughly enjoyable-even if a trifle obsessive. Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard slalom through the comedy with dazzling grace, while Director Alan Schneider unleashes the humor in a blizzard of hilarity...
...wards off a bandit attack led by Richard Boone. But Boone manages to kidnap an Indian-hating lady (Barbara Rush) and rustle the horses, leaving Newman to lead the little band to shelter. The band, it turns out, consists of soloists who cannot harmonize: a malleable Mexican driver (Martin Balsam) who has settled for permanent second-string status; Rush's husband, a corrupt Government agent Fredric March); a pair of bickering teenagers; and a wry-and-ginger redhead (Diane Cilento) who wouldn't mind becoming Newman's squaw...
...offer, the bandits retaliate by tying Rush to a railroad tie. Inside the shack pretentious dialogue is delivered portentously. "It's a shock to grow old," March mutters. "There is no God . . . There is a hell . . ." The adolescents cower and try to find each other. Balsam pines and wavers. Unable to resist Rush's appeals, Cilento takes the loot and starts outside. "We better deal with people out of need, not merit," she intones...
...last, the misanthropic Hombre rises to perform the predictably noble act that redeems him. In the final gunplay, he knocks off Boone and a Mexican henchman who confides to Balsam before expiring: "I would like to know hees name . . ." Hees name is mud, and so is hees scenarist...