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...HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Andy Griffith, Martha Raye, Jane Russell and Dodger Pitcher Sandy Koufax...
...JONES. Director Tony Richardson has made the greatest comic novel in the language into a gaudy, bawdy, bloody, beautiful and side-shatteringly funny farce, the best British movie since Olivier's Henry V. Albert Finney plays the hero as a marvelously likable lout, and Hugh Griffith hilariously demonstrates that in the good old days an Englishman whose passion was the chase could usually run down a pretty little dear...
...first scene, and they have a picnic. The characters are rumbustious caricatures. Joyce Redman is a soggy old piece of cake. Finney is Tom clean through-a fine strapping country boy whose heart is in the right place even when his foremost interest isn't. But Hugh Griffith is the man to watch. A tankard in one hand, a buttock in the other, Squire Western superbly defines a type not quite extinct: the aboriginal Tory, John Bull in his own barnyard...
Died. Richard Barthelmess, 68, square-jawed movie idol of the '20s and '30s, best remembered as the country-boy hero of Tol'able David and the rescuer of distraught D. W. Griffith heroines in Broken Blossoms and Way Down East, a canny New Yorker who invested his savings well, lived out a comfortable retirement (since 1942) with a Long Island mansion and a yacht; of cancer; in Southampton...
...Bear," said Bear scornfully."He always called me Paul." As for the notation that Butts had reported Georgia to be "a well-disciplined ball club," Bryant was equally scornful. "If that was said, I think I would be the one that would be saying it." What about Coach Griffith's claims that Burnett's notes contained Georgia's two basic offensive formations, the "slot" and the "pro set"? asked Schroder. Movies of the game, Bryant answered, would show that Alabama had been completely unprepared for the pro set. The slot, he added with the assurance...