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Jack Benny Show (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS). Guests: Claudette Colbert, Basil Rathbone...
Boris Pascuniak's sensitive directing keeps the story probable and well-paced; he is helped out a great deal by a delightfully pastoral musical score by Bonar Gillis. The acting, unfortunately, is less competent. Jane Cruikshank plays the Snopes daughter with a sheepish grin, while Basil Mange is never convincing as the anthropologist-congressman who finally settles the inter-racial strife. "North Forty's" technicolor sheep are wonderfuly convincing, however, and they leave the moviegoer with a true sensation of the Old West...
...behavior, and Cassius, who waxes lean and hungry with petty resentment..."). Amatuer talent scouts had a chance to vote for the best of three recorded Hamlets (John Gielgud, Maurice Evans, John Barrymore). As a change of pace, Ferrer promises readings from Shakespeare's sonnetts by Gielgud, Basil Rathbone, Dame Edith Evans, as well as his own interpretations of roles from Othello and Romeo and Juliet. To close his lively half-hour with a Shakespearean flourish, Puerto Rican-born Actor Ferrer took some liberties with lines from Richard...
...Basil Radford holds up the movie's toughest part as the obliging boss; he is supported by a fine east, much of it drawn from the Old Vie and movies like "Quartet" and "Tight Little Island." Excellent camera work helps the acting out. "Chance of a Lifetime's" camera looks with interest and care into the mechanical clutter of a modern factory...
...hand, felt the sting of some critical grapeshot himself. After Hume narrated Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf for a National Symphony children's concert in Constitution Hall, the Post printed a frank opinion by six-year-old Critic Frank Manola: "He doesn't sound like Basil Rathbone on my Peter and the Wolf records. He sounds more like Phil Harris on the radio...