Word: gazzara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Optional Midden. ABC's Arrest and Trial has laid an egg with two yolks. Something unique in television, it is a 90-minute double show in which Flatfoot Ben Gazzara has roughly 45 minutes to arrest someone, then Lawyer Chuck Connors spends the remainder of the time preparing and presenting the defense case. The whole is encased in a thin shell of phony dialogue and dramaturgy. Says the defense counsel to the judge: "I ask the court's indulgence while I present the schizoid face of forensic analysis." The judge might have to sit still, but viewers have...
Arrest and Trial (ABC, 8:30-10 p.m.). A new 90-minute format gives Ben Gazzara, detective, 45 minutes to catch the crook, and gives Chuck Conners, defense mouthpiece, 45 minutes to get him off. Anthony Franciosa stars as the crook in the first episode...
...interesting first is back-to-back programming, exemplified by a 90-minute ABC show titled Arrest and Trial broken into two 45-minute parts. A different criminal each week is captured by Detective Ben Gazzara in Arrest, then sprung by Defense Attorney Chuck Conners in Trial, thus effectively canceling out 90 minutes of effort...
...York's Greenwich Village he was introduced to the director of Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse. With the help of the G.I. Bill, Steve won a scholarship to the Herbert Berghof Studio; later he went on to the Actors Studio. In 1956 he replaced Ben Gazzara in Broadway's Hatful of Rain...
...Patient Enemy. As Nina, Geraldine Page climaxes a decade of steady growth as an actress, with a soaring, searing performance that comes close to fulfilling Tennessee Williams' prophecy that she may become "the American Duse." Ben Gazzara plays the lover with dark, penetrating force, and Pat Hingle's Sam alternately snorts at life like a pig in a trough and tearfully contorts his bruised ego like an infant who has missed the 2 o'clock feeding...