Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fate's buffets, and at the film's end is a nubile 60, no worse for wear except for a touch of zinc oxide at the temples. She is the beloved of Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), an honest Norwegian salmon fisherman, until ruthless Zeb Kennedy (Richard Burton), a drifting Irishman who is Ryan's best friend, purloins her affections. In Malemute anguish, Ryan harnesses his huskies and mushes off into the Arctic where, to assuage his grief, he sires a son by an Eskimo maiden. In the meantime, the caddish Burton has ditched Actress Jones, a mere...
...viewer who does not recognize that the sennets and flourishes here mean Montague and Capulet is a dull fellow indeed. Sure enough, while Burton becomes a millionaire cannery owner and his blood enemy Ryan is transformed into a member of the Alaska legislature who crusades for statehood, their children grow up, marry and die violent but poetic deaths during a dogsled race to the obstetrics ward. However, an infant daughter survives the star-crossed union, and in practically no time at all (as Hollywood time flies) she is a grown-up tomato with troubles...
...customers are accustomed to. Most of the major episodes of Huck's hegira are drastically cut or dropped outright. And to chunk up the hole that is left, there is enough conventional "dingnation and sentimenterin' "-not to mention some moony tunes by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane-to provoke the full penalty prescribed by the author: "Persons attempting to find a plot in this narrative will be shot...
...Ernest Hemingway Special (CBS 8:30-10 p.m.). A fine cast - Richard Burton, Maximilian Schell, Sally Ann Howes, Betsy von Furstenberg - gives The Fifth Column a fancy workout as the old maestro's only play (set in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War) bounces from bar to bedroom to bomb shelter...