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...difficult task of stringing the audience along as part of the investigatory committee (while the author constantly emphasizes that it is worthless to search for the truth) falls to the two main characters, played by Mildred Dunnock and Martin Gabel. With no distinctive characteristics other than their separate visions of the family set-up, they still manage to become credible, and one's sympathy switches periodically from one to the other. Miss Dunnock particularly, is excellent, her expressions and voice wavering just on the borderline between madness and sanity...
...only does Frederic March, who plays Willy Loman, talk too much, he talks too loudly. Instead of a disillusioned, broken man, Willy Loman sometimes seems merely a drunk one. Mildred Dunnock, as Willy's wife, is much better. She is able to push through the wordy speeches to show a tired, loving woman who is never really intelligent, but always loyal to her husband...
...other times, the movie blunts poignant climaxes and fritters away mood. Thanks mostly to Playwright Miller, some of the play's power still courses through Death of a Salesman. From the Broadway cast, the film offers good performances by Mildred Dunnock as Willy's wife, Cameron Mitchell as his philandering son, Howard Smith as his envied neighbor. Kevin McCarthy, who played on the London stage the son who sees through Willy, does well in the same part...
Pride's Crossing (by Victor Wolfson; produced by T. Edward Hambleton) penetrates a stately New England mansion to the tempestuous life within. There, out of a diseased respect for respectability, an aristocratic matron (Mildred Dunnock) has lived with her husband and his spitfire stable-girl mistress (Tamara Geva). There, after the husband dies and leaves half the house to the wildcat, the widow lives on with her still. The spitfire's son, the widow's son, her son's son and a governess also inhabit the house where, between heart attacks and thunderstorms, the tying...
Kraft TV Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). Mildred Dunnock in Last Stop...