Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). The 40-year career of Orson Welles is chronicled in two parts, beginning with his performance in Ashley Duke's Jew Süss at Dublin's Gate Theater at age 16, and taking him up to Hollywood in the Forties, including Citizen Kane...
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope have had one for years, Andy Williams gets his next year, Dean Martin is lined up for 1969, and Frank Sinatra is so anxious to acquire Hollywood's latest status symbol that he doesn't even bat an eye at the $175,000 price tag. Well what is it, for heaven's sake? Nothing less than their own golf tournament, with the boys and their pals putting up the cash and getting the whole thing named after them. It's all two-bit Nassau, though, compared with what Jackie Gleason...
Snarling Lessons. Tors's way with the wild began in Budapest, where he studied zoology as a pre-med student. He came to Hollywood as a screenwriter in 1940, but it was not until the mid-1950s, while filming a sea-horse opera called Sea Hunt, that he became impressed with the good manners of the sharks: he visited them in their underwater sets almost daily, was never once attacked. Convinced that the killer image of the shark, as well as that of other animals, was based on fear and prejudice, Tors became a full-time student of animal...
Died. Claude Rains, 76, versatile British-born actor who moved from the London stage to Hollywood's screen at 42, first as the malevolent, disembodied voice in The Invisible Man, followed by 55 other roles, from the corrupt French cop in Casablanca (1942) to the suave British diplomat in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), winning four Academy Award nominations; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Laconia...
...brittle, the dialogue often simply crumbles. Director Buzz Kulik nonetheless manages to give Warning Shot velocity by getting polished performances from his cast and by catching the spirit of stucco swank that passes for class in some down-at-heels sections of Los Angeles. As a faithful copy of Hollywood's old hard-boiled style of detective fiction, the film is not likely to engender any emotion except nostalgia. But if it has the look and the sound of an antique, it also has some of its value...