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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...
F.D.R. (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.).* The wave of labor unrest following Roosevelt's inauguration, with a script by Quentin Reynolds, and Charlton (BenHur) Heston as the voice of F.D.R...
...Glen Canyon, Utah. And he summoned unto him so many actors great and small that Galilee often seems but a stone's throw from Desilu. The long, long road to Calvary is lined with the usual yea-verily types (Claude Rains as Herod the Great, Charlton Heston as John the Baptist) plus, it would seem, any other celebrity ready to trade top billing for a chance to play holy charades. Jesus cures a cripple (Sal Mineo), a blind man (Ed Wynn) and a leper (Shelley Winters). He bears his cross under the stern eye of Roman Centurion John Wayne...
F.D.R. (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Premiere of a weekly series on Roosevelt's presidential career. Charlton Heston speaks the President's words, and Arthur Kennedy is narrator...
...much interest and, for many younger people, education. The program deserves praise just because it exists. With that understood, it must be reported that the producers have unfortunately glossed their good material with a veneer of embarrassingly bad taste. The first and worst offense is the voice of Charlton Heston, who speaks for the President. Roosevelt's own recorded voice will be used wherever possible, but in the interim Heston's St. Grotlesex mimicry is offensive, especially when heard beside the true voice of Mrs. Roosevelt, who recorded her own lines for the series before she died...