Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Escape. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Donald Pleasence are among the Allied officers who stage a wholesale escape from a Nazi prison camp in one of the season's most exciting pictures...
...full of them-transistorized, chrome, four-speaker, stereophonic cartridge models, activated by the car battery. Frank Sinatra's Riviera has one. So have such clan wagons as Dean Martin's Corvette and Peter Lawford's Ghia. Tape recorders also make a sound like Muzak in James Garner's Jaguar, Red Skelton's Rolls and Lawrence Welk's Dodge convertible...
...obstetrical Paul Revere is James Garner, who lives with Wife Doris Day and two small children in an elegant house with a curving staircase and a sleep-in housekeeper, located in that lush preserve of Manhattan suburbia that lies just outside Hollywood. Possibly recalling her hungry working-girl roles of years past, Doris is a pinchpenny; she makes the beds, empties the clothes hampers, and runs off brobdingnagian batches of tomato ketchup in the basement. When she gets an offer to appear on a television commercial praising Happy Soap for $332, Day spends a day before the mirror practicing different...
...Doris bubbles her way to the pinnacle of soapy success, Hubby Garner begins to go down the drain out of pure jealousy. The final gurgle comes when -unknown to him-the Happy Soap folks dig a swimming pool for Doris in the backyard where the driveway used to be. That night, whump! splosh! Garner goes down with his convertible as the sound track plays a snatch of sinking-of-the-Titanic music...
...Great Escape. Seventy-six Allied officers accomplish the impossible: a mass breakout from the Nazis' top-security prison camp. The plans and preparation are shown in almost hypnotic detail, and once the escape is under way, the suspense tightens like pincers. Steve McQueen. James Garner, Donald Pleasence, Richard Attenborough head an excellent all-male cast in one of the season's most exciting pictures...