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Sixteen years ago, Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich, his furled umbrella in one hand, a piece of paper in the other, and rode through cheering crowds from Heston aerodrome to No. 10 Downing Street. To the crowd gathered before his door in Downing Street he proclaimed: "For the second time in our history a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor." King George VI welcomed him at Buckingham Palace; Britons stood in the rain cheering him as he declared, "I believe it is peace for our time...
...Each Other (Columbia), something like an 83-minute footnote to the Hippocratic oath, is about a young coaltown M.D. (Charlton Heston) who goes to the big city and becomes a society doctor. As the money piles up, his stock of self-respect goes down, and in the end he drops the rich practice and the rich girl (Lizabeth Scott) who goes with it, heads back to the mining town-or is it the sexy nurse (Dianne Foster)?-that really needs him. Dr. Heston treats his patients with a pre-med manner of such overbearing superiority that he makes the saving...
Medallion Theater (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS). Charlton Heston in A Day in Town...
...made to order for the movies. He rose from Tennessee backwoodsman and lawyer to be elected seventh President of the U.S. in 1828. He raced horses, fought Indians, was as handy with a gun as with a legal brief. Mostly, this film biography looks at Jackson (Charlton Heston) through the eyes of his wife (Susan Hayward). When Rachel Donelson Robards married Jackson, there was a legal error about her divorce from her first husband. Two years later, when the error was discovered, Jackson and Rachel were remarried. But Rachel Jackson was often the object of slanderous gossip (Jackson fought duels...
...share of legitimate adventure. But in its writing, direction and acting, it comes out as a too-slick biographical film. Susan Hayward makes a glamorous Mrs. Jackson even when she is smoking a pipe (as she did in real life), and she grows old becomingly. As Jackson, Charlton Heston is as dashing a figure in or out of politics as any moviegoer could wish. Only in the final scenes, when he ages, does he acquire the familiar shaggy, roughhewn look of Old Hickory...