Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). First of two installments, in successive weeks, of one of the most ambitious dramatic shows in TV history: Hemingway's Spanish-war epic, For Whom the Bell Tolls. Maria Schell as Maria, Jason Robards Jr. as Robert Jordan, Maureen Stapleton as Pilar, and Eli Wallach as Rafael...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic...
When the average Hollywood magnate decides to make a picture, he rounds up a million dollars or so, mounts his curved-screen camera, and hires a host of stars. Several years later, the technicolor epic will, he hopes, draw enough people away from their 21 inch screens to pay the tremendous production costs. To put it mildly, motion pictures are big business, from Producer on down to Assistant Continuity...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic...