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...NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. At a seedy Mexican resort, Director John Huston steers Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton through some choppy but choice sessions of group therapy derived from Tennessee Williams' drama...
BECKET. The tragedy of St. Thomas of Canterbury, one of the greatest dramatic themes of the Middle Ages, is cleverly treated in this cinema adaptation of the play by Jean Anouilh. Richard Burton as the Archbishop at times seems uncertain how to seem uncertain as he struggles with his conscience, but Peter O'Toole is often fascinating as the King. If the film lacks style, it certainly has manner, the grand manner that makes a merely vivid picture seem in sections a remarkable...
...NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. Director John Huston, with his customary competence, has turned Tennessee Williams' morbidly amusing play into a morbidly amusing picture. Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner perform with skill. Richard Burton plays with style...
BECKET. The tragedy of St. Thomas of Canterbury, one of the great dramatic themes of the Middle Ages, is cleverly treated in this cinema adaptation of the play by Jean Anouilh. Richard Burton as the Archbishop at times seems uncertain how to seem uncertain as he struggles with his conscience, but Peter O'Toole is often fascinating as the king. If the film lacks style, it certainly has manner, the grand manner that makes a merely vivid picture seem in sections a remarkable...
Only two scheduled shows are not based on anybody's biography, novel, play, magazine piece, film or war. In I Had a Ball, Buddy Hackett will play a Freudian fortune teller on Coney Island. Clairvoyance looms large in the other original, the long-awaited Alan Jay Lerner-Burton Lane collaboration, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Barbara Harris, who was the sensation of Oh Dad, Poor Dad . . ., plays a girl with extrasensory perception...