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Middle of the Night. Paddy Chayefsky's highly effective saga about a lonely September widower (Fredric March) and a neurotic May girl (Kim Novak...
Middle of the Night (Sudan; Columbia) transforms an honest but clumsy play by Paddy Chayefsky into a cruelly beautiful and moving film, a story of life and love as a man grows older. The man (Fredric March) is a clothing manufacturer-shrewd, hardworking, decent. At 56, still "a vigorous man with normal appetites," still fairly attractive to women, he finds himself a widower. What to do with the rest of his life? At first he simply works, works, works. After a while he starts spending time at his married daughter's house, playing with the baby. Then...
...biggest celebration of them all, right there in Washington. Democratic leaders in both houses set up a solemn joint session to hear the U.S. Army band play patriotic tunes, the U.S. Coast Guard cadet chorus sing Civil War songs (Dixie, Battle Hymn of the Republic), and Actor Fredric March read the Gettysburg Address...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). If it appeared in the daytime, The Winslow Boy might look like a soap opera, but Terence Rattigan's old school tie has a habit of glowing in the dark; with Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Siobhan McKenna, Rex Thompson, Denholm Elliott...
...Playwright Maxwell Anderson apparently dashed off on the back of an old theater program. Composer Bernard Herrmann contributed a few carols lacking either spirit or strength to presume on old standbys, and some solo songs (lyrics also by Anderson) that seemed saccharine even from Tiny Tim (Christopher Cook). Occasionally Fredric March as Scrooge showed some of his talent (as when he tried to wish away Marley's ghost as a case of indigestion), but for the most part, he seemed to be trying to caricature Scrooge Emeritus, the late Lionel Barrymore. The production was technically instructive for viewers interested...