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...SAMMY DAVIS JR. SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guests are Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Nancy Wilson, Corbett Monica and the Will Mastin Trio. Color...
...Kaplan's music catches something of the grey and cold. The photography is drab like Check Point Charlie, and not very imaginative. There are lots of long shots of Burton's eyes where he registers fear, confusion, love, and, in the end, disbelief...
There are several unfortunate lines that from the way they are delivered, make you wonder if they are intended to refer to Burton's role in Becket. Control refers to Fiedler as the "acolyte who will one day stab the high priest in the back;" and Burton refers to the warden in the prison as the Archbishop of Canterbury. It's not the right kind of movie for clever allusions. The lines would have been better left...
...both produced and directed, deserves credit for his cast. Oskar Werner as Fiedler and Peter Van Eyck as Mundt are good in the court room scene, though in general Werner is rather over-done and Van Eyck wooden. Claire Bloom elicits just the right amount of love from Burton. And Burton, when he sits waiting to be interviewed for a job, when he makes contact with the Communist agent, and when he looks down from the Berlin wall at Smiley, is superb. All he has to do is whisper, "I have to go early in the morning...
...read the book and remember vaguely what happened, it will give you just that much more perspective on Burton's control. You never know what is going on, you never know who's who, until he knows...