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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). "Ask Any Girl," starring Shirley MacLaine, Gig Young and David Niven. Color...
...Three lads want to find a husband for Mommy, a Navy widow (Shirley Jones). One day they flash a semaphoric SOS from their bedroom window toward the naval base across the bay, succeed in alerting a considerable portion of the U.S. Navy. When a suitably goodhearted, simple-minded commander (Gig Young) comes jeeping to the house, the boys look him over, decide he is just the man for Mommy. From then on, the story cruises so predictably that viewers may get an uneasy feeling of having somewhere, somehow, seen the movie before...
...Instantly, much of Southern California is in a state of emergency. An aircraft carrier, a fire engine, a fleet of patrol boats, an LST, swarms of helicopters, jets and amphibian planes, an ambulance, police cars and a posse of excitable civilians mobilize into an armada of ineptitude. Finally Gig commandeers a blimp, has himself lowered on a life raft, grabs the flyaway as he floats...
...hoist those big balloons up through the hatch of the blimp? Nobody thinks of cutting the strings and letting the balloons just drift away as Gig holds on to Grover. Instead, Buttons takes a rifle and plugs the balloons one by one while hanging from the blimp by his belt. Eventually the last balloon goes splop-psssssssss. And so does the movie...
...Except for Joan Blackman's sweater, there is precious little to open anyone's eyes in this re-botch of the 1937 movie about the seamy side of the fight game. Between bouts, Presley Elviscerates a few helpless songs, moos over Joan, and twists like Little Egypt. Gig Young as a blarneying promoter and Lola Albright as his "fiancée" try to beat some brains into the picture but the script resists successfully...