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Shane. (1953) Director George Stevens presents the archetypal Western with Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, and Van Heflin. Come back, Shane. CH.7. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...John. (1952) Paranoid fantasy from the McCarthy era stars Helen Hayes and Van Heflin. Dean Jagger hits son John, a suspected Communist, over the head with a Bible in one of the film's more subtle moments. CH.5...
...friend of Eugene O'Neill's, Deeter abandoned a career on Broadway in 1923 and set up the Hedgerow Theater in a vacant mill. Before Deeter retired as its director in 1956, Hedgerow had established itself as a training ground for such future stars as Van Heflin, Libby Holman and Richard Basehart...
Died. Van Heflin, 60, performer in more than 50 films and on the Broadway stage; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. The rough-hewn actor with the jutting jaw and the gravelly voice scored his first big Broadway success in The Philadelphia Story (1939). From his 1942 Oscar-winning performance as the drunken newspaper reporter in Johnny Eager to his portrayal of the longshoreman in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge (1955), to his role as the mad bomber in last year's Airport, Heflin managed to avoid the typecasting that plagues many actors...
...danger, laughter, suspense and heartbreak. Burt's main problem of the moment is the jetliner stuck in the snow out there on No. 29 runway. As if that were not enough, another flight just has to land on that runway. Seems there is a mad bomber (Van Heflin) on board, who is threatening to blow up the plane to give his wife (Maureen Stapleton) all the insurance money. Such churlish behavior endangers the crew of what must be the world's largest flying soap opera, including Captain Dean Martin and his pregnant girlfriend, Stewardess Jacqueline Bisset; Co-Captain...