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...ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Dramatization of H. G. Wells's The Magic Shop, in which a young boy with supernatural evil powers visits a magic shop and disappears...
...jellyfish. One is there now. He is a polite, amiable, tall, dark, and loose-hung Scot named Sean Connery, who divides his time. In every other film he makes, he is Ian Fleming's Secret Agent James Bond (Dr. No, From Russia with Love). Now working in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie, he is playing a company owner who tries to cure a pretty kleptomaniac (Tippi Hedren) and woos her as well...
...Blackwell." Ringmaster Amory, who killed society, has now set about celebrities, and when in doubt on what to say, he has dropped back and punned. Marlon Brando is "the all-time tempest in a T-shirt." Tommy Manville is "an altar-ego." Eva Gabor is "strictly from Hungary." Alfred Hitchcock is the "star of staged screams and television." And Elizabeth Taylor is "a million-dollar crybaby in a wive-and-men spent store." Whew. That took four years to write...
Maniac is good clean sadism that seldom falters until the final frames, when the fun is diluted in a 3.2 Hitchcock solution. A chase through an underground quarry might have worked out fine for Alfred, but this shock show scores highest when it is being its unpredictable self...
...Daphne du Maurier's story and Alfred Hitchcock's movie, The Birds, it is the birds that go berserk and attack man. Last week in New York City, it was man who, after generations of meek submission to fowl indignities, turned upon the birds. The city government was considering exterminating the pigeons that drop their excrement on park benches, statues and hurrying pedestrians. City officials are convinced at last that the pigeons - up to 5,000,000 of them, by some of the wilder estimates - are an intolerable menace to health...