Word: heston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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F.D.R. (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Charlton Heston comes down from the mountain to speak the former President's words in "Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt," a focus on that First Lady's evolution as a world figure...
...Among them: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Greer Garson, Fredric March, Teresa Wright, Fay Bainter, Walter Brennan, Burl Ives, Hugh Griffith, Audrey Hepburn, Charlton Heston...
CLOAK OF MYSTERY (NBC 9-10 p.m.) Repeat of "The Fugitive Eye, with Charl ton Heston playing a one-eyed circus strongman who attempts to convince po lice he has spotted a corpse moldering in a car and three gravediggers working nearby...
Here some two dozen agile stunt men sustain the casualties for both sides, making death look like an Olympian test of skill. Their tardy efforts to save Major Dundee from mediocrity rival the gesture of Actor Heston who, with a perhaps excessive sense of responsibility, returned his $200,000 salary to Columbia Pictures to pay for last-minute improvements in the film. Alas, the bread thus cast upon the waters seems to have sunk without a trace...
Major Dundee is Charlton Heston, and the writers of this long-winded, quasi-Biblical western apparently had fun filling their script with reminders that the star has previously played such roles as Ben-Hur, Moses and John the Baptist. With Old Testament wrath, he pursues Chief Sierra Charriba through the wilderness in A.D. 1865. But once Heston gets on Mexican soil, Director Sam Peckinpah (Ride the High Country) lets Dundee ramble so freely that the Apaches are soon lost in subplots...