Word: cotten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, and Jean Peters in Niagara...
During that time, each of the directors is forced to reveal to President Julian Armstone (Joseph Cotten) that he has a motive for being the raider's well-paid Trojan horseman. These revelations are not so much jolting glimpses of human frailty as they are dismaying exposures of gimcrack theatrical carpentry. The motive of the raider (Gerald S. O'Loughlin) is typically yawn-provoking. As a youngster he waited on table for "polite boys" in button-down collars, and has venomously turned the tables ever since. Hero Cotten is a kind of airborne Hamlet who has always eluded...
Playwright Hayes writes the kind of dialogue that turns English prose into watered stock. At one point, Cotten's wife says quiveringly to her husband: "The ground's shaking under us all, Julian.'' What she means is the play...