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...entertainments. Director Roley does not enhance audience involvement by shooting everything through a diffusion filter. Obviously derived from The Birds, Chosen Survivors is also strictly for them. Or maybe for the made-for-TV movie market, where most of the cast - Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel, Bradford Dillman, Diana Muldaur - customarily find work...
...rest of the movie is meticulously cast: Fredric March is a splendid Harry Hope, Jeff Bridges a fine, driven Parritt. Bradford Dillman, Moses Gunn, Evans Evans, Tom Pedi and John McLiam are all excellent. Yet the movie belongs most securely to Robert Ryan, and it is an eloquent memorial to his talent. Ryan, who died of cancer in July, was ailing while he was making Iceman. In the circumstances, it would be easy to sentimentalize his performance. But such a gesture would diminish its greatness. With the kind of power and intensity that is seldom risked, much less realized...
...drunken older brother, James Jr., Stacy Keach lacks something of Jason Robards' Broadwayish flamboyance but inflects the role with more guilt-racked anguish. James Naughton has the same difficulty that Bradford Dillman had in the original in suggesting the steely resolve that the tubercular young Edmund (really Eugene O'Neill himself) must have possessed to wrest his genius from these stricken souls...
...DANNY THOMAS HOUR (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Bradford Dillman as the head of a small-time numbers racket talks Richard (Man of La Mancha) Kiley into becoming a bagman for his illegal operation in "Measure...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). In the first of a two-part adven ture, Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and lllya Kuryakin (David McCallum) set out to steal "the thermal prism," a new weapon of mass destruction. Guest stars in "The Prince of Darkness Affair" include Bradford Dillman, Lola Albright, Carol Lynley...