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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). McGuire, Go Home (1966). During the British occupation of Cyprus in the 1950s, an American tourist (Susan Strasberg) visits the island and inadvertently witnesses an underground meeting, thereby arousing the suspicion of both the Cypriots and a British major (Dirk Bogarde). Repeat...
...suffer actors who give less than their all. "He seems more eccentric than heroic," she wrote of Marlon Brando's performance in Mutiny on the Bounty. "He's like a short, flabby tenor wandering around the stage and not singing; you wonder what he's doing there." She described Dirk Bogarde in Accident: "He aches all the time all over, like an all-purpose sufferer for a television commercial, locked in with a claustrophobia of his own body and sensibility." And she disposed of Ann-Margret in a remake of Stagecoach: "She does most of her acting inside her mouth...
...Oxford don, Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) is whacking bad at human relations but so cracking good at puzzle solving that the government employs him to find a cure for the common code used by enemy agents. When hiring new girls for his staff, Sebastian confronts them with questions like "How many words can you make from thorough!" And "What is Naitsabes spelled backward?" A Queeg in mufti, he compulsively fingers a rubber ball as he orders his overworked underlings to "switch your gorgeous minds to overdrive." From time to time, Sebastian mutters antiheroic cliches to himself, like...
...complement rather than a distraction to cinematic stylization. Pinter command of language, though, transcends Losey's sense of style, and Losey does not always get a firm grip on the subtle and elusive screenplay. Often, the ideas are better on paper than they are in the finished film (Dirk Bogarde's liaison with ex-girlfriend Delphine Seyrig), and Accident falls flattest when Losey injects familiar notes of high Baroque into Pinter's version of the groves of academe. In fact, Losey is more comfortable with high baroque; Eva and Modesty Blaise, though self-conscious and dramatically weak, come close...
Thursday, December 21 CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Judy Garland and Dirk Bogarde in I Could Go on Singing, the backstage story of entertainer Jenny Bowman, filmed in and around London...