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Philco Radio Playhouse (Wed. 9 p.m., ABC). Joseph Cotten and Margaret Phillips in The Dusty Drawer...
...Miss Sullavan realizes that she has made an error, she can find solace in the casting of her co-star. Joseph Cotten, one of the screen's top soft-spoken actors, is supposed to act power-mad, wild and unharnessed...
While Mr. Cotten and Miss Sullavan are up-braiding the producer for tricking them into Sabrina Fair, the two stars might have a word with author Samuel Taylor. Taylor has provided them with a parody of Shavian comedy. Shaw's good-natured snobbery, his interminable stretches of dialogue, his predictable surprise ending are all belabored here. Lacking only is Shaw's sincerity and wit: In the part forced on Cotten, the "superman" seems barely capable of running his own life. And any clever lines are spare indeed, while almost-clever lines pop up again and again to mar the play...
...Blueprint for Murder, Actor Cotten pushes his mannerism to the point where he seems to undergo a paroxysm of Angst every time he decides to put one foot in front of another. To some extent, Cotten's anxiety is understandable: he has reason to believe that his brother and his niece were murdered by his brother's second wife (Jean Peters), but he cannot prove anything, and neither can the police. , In a desperate attempt to keep the woman from poisoning his brother's other child, Gotten poisons her first-with a tablet of strychnine he found...
Niagara is, of course, a cheap picture. There is a cheap song, "Kiss," for Marilyn to breathe convulsively. And even talented Joseph Cotten gives a cheap performance as Marilyn's shabby husband. But Niagara does have its highlights; and everyone will have his own favorite scene: red dress, shower curtain, blue dress, negligee...