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...twirl his mustachios and snicker up his sleeve, so it's obvious there's a will and this is the stepmother's naughty way of contesting it. But watch out. A couple of nasty surprises have been stirred into the routine ingredients of this unsavory little chiller con carne...
Kraft Mystery Theater (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* First of a new chiller series filmed in England is "The Professionals," about a safecracker who gets out of prison and into trouble...
Somewhat Jealous. She made more movies, played with Montand in stage and screen versions of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, was seen by U.S. audiences in the memorable chiller, Diaboligue. Yet Simone insists that she is too lazy to be a great star, and too bent on following her husband wherever his career takes him. "Not that I'm sacrificing anything," she adds hastily. "It's just that between lousy scripts and being with him, I'd rather be with him. Of course I'm jealous too," she says. "There's good reason...
...Hollywood vision of the end of the world. It is trumpeted as "the biggest story . . . The single most important film of our time." Last week it had a "Global Premiere," i.e., a simultaneous opening in 17 cities from Melbourne to Moscow. Alas, the version of the Nevil Shute chiller (TIME, Aug. 19, 1957) that Stanley (The Defiant Ones) Kramer has produced and directed turns out to be a sentimental sort of radiation romance, in which the customers are considerately spared any scenes of realistic horror, and are asked instead to accept the movie notion of what is really horrible about...
Novelist Wyndham well knows the first rule in writing a chiller-effective specters must be ectoplasmatter-of-fact-and so he takes the dullest, most ordinary village in England to populate with his monsters. Nothing much noteworthy has happened in Midwich since the Black Death. One day something very odd does happen: every living thing falls into a trance. All who pass through an invisible perimeter pass out. Traffic piles up. Some victims are hauled out by hooks from the edge of this zone of silence: they wake up unharmed. Promptly, of course, official hush-hush seals off Midwich...