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MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). The Rains of Ranchipur, a triangle with Lana Turner. Richard Burton, Michael Rennie...
...V.l.P.s. Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Orson Welles, Rod Taylor and Margaret Rutherford spend the night in an airport, and believe it or not, they seem to enjoy the experience. So do the customers...
...V.I.P.s. The sufferings of the rich, as Hollywood well knows, are among the sweetest pleasures of the poor. This picture exploits the one to provide the other. In particular, it exploits the much-exploited sufferings of its principal players, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. In general, it exploits the predicament of four wealthy men and women whose flight is fogbound overnight in London Airport...
...most of them, delay invites disaster. Heroine Taylor is "eloping" to America with Louis Jourdan, and delay means that Hero Burton, the violently jealous millionaire the heroine is married to, will surely catch up with them. Orson Welles, a celebrated film director, has tax problems, and delay beyond midnight means that about ?300,000 will be legally lifted out of his pocket. Rod Taylor, a tractor tycoon, needs a financial transfusion to save his corporate life, and delay means debacle...
...mindlessly. "Flying is a most peculiar experience," she muses. "First they tie you to your seat and say you are going to go. Then they untie you and say you are not going to go. Hah! You'd never catch the Queen Mary behaving like that!" After Rutherford, Burton and Taylor hardly seem worth watching. But Rod Taylor holds his own pretty well...