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THURSDAY: The Battle of Culloden (1964) Highly imaginative documentary-style recreation of the last full-scale battle fought on British soil from director Peter Watkins whose BBC Special "The War Game," about the prospect of nuclear warfare, petrified millions. CH.2. 8 p.m. B-W. 90 min. (May be pre-empted by Senate Watergate Hearings, which may also petrify millions...
WEDNESDAY: The Enforcer. (1951) Whatever else this Humphrey Bogart crime melodrama may be, it is more violent than the Battle of Culloden and rivals nuclear war. At least ten people die on-screen in bloody detail and another 20 or 30 are implicated in the general mayhem. Bogie comes through clean of course as the upstanding D.A. fighting organized crime. Where are the Special Prosecutors of yesteryear" CH.38...
Unfortunately, the characters in the movie spend a dispiriting amount of time hanging around castles, gobbling porridge and mumbling about Culloden and dark days for Scotland. Even the action sequences generate little more excitement than a Frisbee tournament. When he doesn't know what else to do -which seems to be most of the time -Director Mann throws in a lingering shot of the distant lochs or the heather on the hill...
...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8:30-10 p.m.). The Battle of Culloden is a documentary reconstruction done in newsreel fashion of the last battle to be fought on British soil and its aftermath. Repeat...
...make this a noble screening o' that mirk rebellion o' 1745. But e'en were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen couldna win the war. A man mocht e'en think they wer'nae beaten at Culloden wi' clouds o' Redcoat shot 'n shell, but hae merely talked themselves to death...