Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blueprint for Murder (20th Century-Fox) is one of those titles that have nothing whatever to do with the picture -unless it refers to the old Hollywood blueprint for doing violence to whatever talent Actor Joseph Gotten may have...
...When Gotten first went west with Orson Welles's Mercury Theater troupe, the moguls were so astonished to see an actor with wrinkles in his wardrobe, and even a few lines in his face, that they almost reverently decided he must be great. He wasn't, but a lot of moviegoers took his fumbling as a sign of moral earnestness and his hesitation as a symptom of bashful charm. Gotten was typed as a sort of rising young vestryman-safe, but just possibly sexy...
...understandable: he has reason to believe that his brother and his niece were murdered by his brother's second wife (Jean Peters), but he cannot prove anything, and neither can the police. , In a desperate attempt to keep the woman from poisoning his brother's other child, Gotten poisons her first-with a tablet of strychnine he found in her own aspirin bottle. Unfortunately, Actor Gotten looks so earnest and bashful at the climax that the audience is apt to wonder whether, after all, he is involved in a matter of life & death or whether he is simply...
Summer Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Joseph Gotten in Cynara...
...sets that seem as boundless as a boy's dreams, recording, without undue surprise, the most surprising details. Dr. T.'s castle is equipped with topless sky ladders, sliding doors, subterranean passages, split staircases that lead nowhere, an outsize shovel for putting the doctor's ill-gotten greenbacks in the safe, and a pair of Siamese-twin flunkies, joined by one long white beard, who go about their chores on roller skates. Best of many good sequences: a bizarre ballet, staged by Choreographer Eugene (Billy the Kid) Loring, in which a dungeonful of non-piano-playing musicians...