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...Defector is Montgomery Cliffs last film. Based on The Spy, a thriller by Paul Thomas, the picture describes a harrowing week in the life of a prominent U.S. physicist (Montgomery Clift) who intends to make an innocent tour of museums in East Germany, but is persuaded at the last minute to combine personal pleasure with CIA business. Once across the border, the scientist swiftly discovers that the game of espionage can be played with mirrors. Sent to make contact with a Communist physicist who wants to defect, the hero instead makes contact with a Communist physicist (Hardy Kruger) who wants...
...notion is amusing but clumsily worked out. Aside from some radiant color photography by Raoul Coutard (Jules and Jim, Breathless), Clift is the only interesting thing in this sluggish and somewhat muddled movie. But the interest in Clift, who died of a heart attack soon after this picture was completed, will be mostly morbid. Suffice it to say that his acting, though competent, is less striking than his appearance. He looks like a man who knows he is in bad health-and in a bad picture. It provides an undistinguished conclusion to a distinguished career...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Part 1 of The Young Lions (1958), with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift in outstanding performances as German and American soldiers during World War II. Remember carefully-the second part won't be aired until next Sunday...
This winter, for instance, Paul Newman will enter his 41st year. So will Jack Lemmon. While nobody was looking, Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando and Doris Day turned 41, Ava Gardner 42, Judy Garland 43. Montgomery Clift and Mickey Rooney are 44. Robert Stack has reached 46, Joey Bishop and William Holden 47. Dean Martin and Raymond Burr have hit 48, Gregory Peck and Kirk Douglas 49, Ingrid Bergman 50. Loretta Young could now be properly billed as Loretta Middle-Aged at 52. And as for Gary Grant...
Specifically, Shaddeg was irritated by what seemed to be an almost systematic disregard for sound political advice. He accuses Goldwater of abandoning proven political talent. He is particularly bitter about the relegation of Clift White-early genius of the campaign-to a secondary status in the Goldwater camp. He bristles over things like the "naming of four relatively unknown Arizonans as campaign directors." And the why of it all is simple, as Shaddeg sees...