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Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Bernard Shaw's Cashel Byron's Profession, with Charlton Heston, June Lockhart...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Macbeth, with Charlton Heston, Judith Evelyn...
Dark City (Paramount) is a snail-paced thriller about three tin horn gamblers pursued by an avenging psychopath. It also introduces to the screen a sullen, Bogart-style newcomer from television, Charlton Heston...
...first picture, Heston is cast as a Cornell alumnus with a blemished war record (while a pilot in England he took time off between bombing runs to murder his wife's lover). This tragedy has somehow reduced him to running a Chicago handbook that is always being raided by the police. In desperation, Heston turns card sharper and, with two cronies, fleeces a sucker of $5,000. The sucker commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and child as well as a maniacal brother who sets out to eliminate the gamblers. He throttles two of them and has a lethal...
Producer Hal Wallis has decked out this contrived story with standard melodramatic props: dark shadows, windblown curtains, the strangler's poised hands. Ed Begley has a nice bit part as a gambler with ulcers. Heston is appropriately tough with Nightclub Singer Lizabeth Scott and predictably sentimental with Widow Viveca Lindfors...