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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Peter Lawford, Bethel Leslie and Broderick Crawford in a U.S. Cavalry-Apache shoot...
What makes The Knack fresh, of course, is Lester's verve. It is in fact so much a director's picture that characters tend to take precedence over performances. Yet the acting--by Rita Tushingham as Nancy, Ray Brooks as Tolen, Michael Crawford as Colin, and Donal Donnelly as Tom--is impeccable. And the dialogue, except for a bit of repetitiousness now and then, has the sound of dead-on improvisation. It all adds up to a cool, inventive, very funny film...
...Gardners settled in Beacon Street. Mrs. Jack studied Dante under Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton, read poetry aloud with Novelist F. Marion Crawford, sat for a portrait by John Singer Sargent, paid Paderewski $1,000 to play for her privately at home, entertained Henry James at tea (James described the effects of a chat with her as "absolute vertigo"). She wore diamonds in her hair, hung ropes of pearls around her waist, traveled to Europe, Egypt, Java, Japan and Cambodia...
...ROGUES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Gambit by the Golden Gate," an episode in which Marcel St. Clair (Charles Boyer) tries to appropriate a painting from an art collector (Broderick Crawford). Repeat...
Ireland's other problem is Joan Crawford, cast as a predatory neighbor who doesn't care what a man has done so long as he is willing to remarry. Joan is given big billing but has a small role, and soon both her number and her time are up. The plot perks right along without her. Having learned Andi's identity, Ireland closes in during the whee hours when open windows, flashing cutlery and hairbreadth escapes are apt to achieve maximum impact among teenagers. Any who are hooked on horror shows will find every reason to haunt...