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FROM CHEKHOV WITH LOVE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Sir John Gielgud, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Dorothy Tutin, Nigel Davenport and Wendy Hiller star in this biographical drama based on the life of the 19th century Russian playwright...
...role lends itself, then, to vertiginous virtuosity and variety of interpretation--as exemplified in recent decades by the performances of John Gielgud, Maurice Evans, Michael Redgrave, Paul Scofield, Alec Guinness, John Neville, and David Warner...
...accomplished a new reading of the texts. By stressing the social intelligence of the three principle characters from the outset, he develops the triangular tension of the situation to its fullest. Falstaff (Welles), the embodiment of personal license, is dying of drink and tertiary syphillis. King Henry (Sir John Gielgud), the embodiment of public duty, is dying of guilt and accumulated strain. Hal (Keith Baxter) is only beginning to live, and must choose not only between true and substitute fathers, but between two opposed life styles. These characters move in this tangled relation with consistency and conscious purpose. Most...
...title role, Bogarde provides added proof that he is a film actor with an extraordinary range of sensibilities. He is immensely aided by a strong supporting cast, notably Lilli Palmer as a sad-eyed, burned-out leftist, and the omnipresent John Gielgud as Sebastian's chief. But good actors need more than each other in order to make a film work, and in the end Naitsabes spelled backward is only a promising idea mishandled. Dab wohs...
...must, along with the shower sequence in Psycho and the Odessa Steps sequence in Potemkin, be considered a supreme example of classical montage. Welles confounds one's normal sense of scene and over-all geography by employing sets and backgrounds more evocative than specific, more abstract than representative. John Gielgud, as the dying King, gives his best screen performance in this revolutionary film...