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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 (1953) starring William Holden, Otto Preminger, Don Taylor and Neville Brand, returns to remind television how to tell war stories...
Thursday, November 17 THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Princess Grace, then just our Kellv girl, won her Oscar as The Country Girl in the 1955 film version of Clifford Odets' nlay; also starring Bing Crosby and William Holden...
...honor of Southern womanhood is represented by a couple of highborn hussies (Janice Rule and Victoria Shaw) who offer their fair white bodies to the herdsman hero (William Holden) like so much fatback on a plate. The manners of the Southern gentleman are exemplified by a courtly colonel (Richard Widmark) who, in an episode obviously intended to titillate amateur analysts, shoots off the hero's little finger...
After that, Holden wears one white glove, which flutters pointlessly throughout a performance that may well advance the date of his much-rumored retirement. Widmark typically does nothing to distract attention from his ineptitudes, among them a curious tendency to stumble over words of more than one syllable. He comes on, alas, with a Southern accent, and manages to sayound ez eeyuf heyuz tongue hayud tuhwurned intew a wawatermayelon. Fortunately, most of his scenes are stolen by his horse...
...decade ago when Actor William Holden mused aloud: "I really don't know why, but danger has always been an important thing-to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could drive without cracking up." This summer he found an all too tangible answer: his $11,000 Ferrari, whining along at a reported 110 m.p.h. on a limit-free Italian autostrada, crunched into a tiny Fiat, killing a Florentine businessman. Although the actor's driving record has been safe at any speed, an Italian magistrate ruled last week that there was sufficient evidence...