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Pyro glosses over its terror with a sort of Hitchcock-and-bull story photographed in Spain in flamenco hues and laved in bucketfuls of blue butane gas. The film casts Barry Sullivan as a philanderer who becomes a firebug when cast-off Playmate Martha Hyer sends his house up in flame. His wife and daughter dead, Barry survives, a hideously deformed monster with a "carbonized" brain. Crazed, hunted, vowing fiery vengeance, he hides behind a mask that inexplicably looks just like his old self. To keep the movie's audience from straying out for a smoke, there are some...
...ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Joan Hackett, Kevin McCarthy and Kathy Nolan in a murder story about two former school friends and a photographer...
...else, is a showcase for Actor George C. Scott's considerable talent, will disappear. Some critics cried that "serious drama" was vanishing from TV. Series drama, maybe; but well-written plays have always been tantalizingly rare on TV. CBS-TV President James Aubrey has also axed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Twilight Zone, Route 66, The Garry Moore Show, The New Phil Silvers Show, old Jack Benny, and Danny Thomas (who, like Benny, will bob back on NBC). Judy Garland "resigned" with a moving letter. Meanwhile, it was announced that Lucille Ball was going to lose her regular...
Strait-Jacket. Joan Crawford cuts loose in a sanguinary shudder-show that suffers from a split personality. It was written by Robert Bloch (Psycho), but screams for the sure hand of Hitchcock; it aspires to the Grand Guignol of Baby Jane, but falls short of being droll. Yet despite foolish dialogue, blunt direction, and a fustian plot, there are moments of breath-stopping terror as the heads roll, at times almost literally...
...Hollywood, Connery is considered offbeat two or three times over. First, he asked to read the script of Marnie before accepting the job. "Even Cary Grant doesn't ask to read a Hitchcock script," said Hitchcock's agent in London. "Well, I'm not Cary Grant," said Connery. "If you want me, send me a script." He picks up checks (something most actors consider against union rules), he has no personal pressagent, and out of sheer disinterest, he turns down invitations that others might pay for: he was asked to help set the cornerstone...