Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roberts. First-rate retelling of the long-run Broadway hit about life aboard a Navy supply ship; with Henry Fonda, James Cagney (TIME, July...
...Roberts (Warner) should be one of the biggest moneymakers of the year. It combines a sure-fire story, the honest-Injun appeal of Henry Fonda, and a bagful of tried and true comedy situations. Based on the long-run Broadway hit by Joshua Logan and the late Thomas Heggen, the film gains much from the CinemaScope opportunity to catch the horizon sweeps of the broad Pacific, the majestic overwater parade of a task force, and the sky-filling explosions of ocean dawns and sunsets...
...Reluctant, carrying unvital but necessary cargo, from toothpaste to toilet paper, to all the safe island harbors between Tedium and Apathy. But what moviegoers see is less a ship than a floating prep school: Captain James Cagney is as fussy, opinionated and domineering as any self-seeking headmaster; Henry Fonda, the cargo officer who continually sighs to be in combat, fills the role of a young Mr. Chips; the crew's schoolboy pranks are only thinly disguised as adult antics. Even when the sailors, with binoculars glued to their eyes, are squirming with delight at the glimpse...
Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). The Petrified Forest, starring Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall...
General Electric Theater (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Henry Fonda in The Clown...