Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spencer Tracy, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Peter O'Toole are contending for roles in the film version of Hogan's Goat, by William Alfred, professor of English, according to Dorothy Manners, a syndicated Hollywood columnist...
...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...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. In this taut, tasteful version of John le Carré's bestseller about a burnt-out British secret agent, Richard Burton gives his best screen performance...
...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...