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...When Hoodlum Joe Valachi appeared before Arkansas Senator John McClellan's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee last week, he rasped out a 31-hour rhapsody of names, crimes and Cosa Nostra syndicate secrets. Valachi's song held nothing new for U.S. lawmen: he had been holding private recitals for them for more than a year. But his testimony might provide some ideas for show biz scriptwriters...
...Later this month he will testify before the Senate's McClellan committee. Already the Justice Department is readying a score of new indictments. But the Government's fear has been that Valachi's startling confession might touch off a new wave of gangland killings as hoodlums sought to weed out bad risks. At week's end it happened. Two Brooklyn thugs died as bullets sprayed their cars in two separate attacks. One was a member of the Gallo gang, from which killers had been recruited for the rub-out of Albert Anastasia; the other...
Unfortunately, after this mad beginning The Man slows down to a walk. Worse yet, TV's Telly Savalas (The Untouchables, The Witness), cast to type as the card-carrying hoodlum, almost succeeds in heisting the show from Danny when in the last reel, Telly-on the Diners' Club-rents Avis Fords, gladiolus bouquets, peony-print bridesmaids' outfits, redheaded office girls, and messengers on bicycles to stage a gangland wedding getaway. Danny Kaye does not even have a git-gat-gittle patter song to reassure audiences that they are watching him and not Jerry Lewis. What...
...Sunday Night Movie (ABC, 8-10 p.m.). Don Murray stars as The Hoodlum Priest...
...quality and backed it with his name, and a newer type of paper manipulator who merely juggles figures and jiggles stock with irresponsible anonymity. Unfortunately, these promises are not kept. What evolves is a faint melodramatic paraphrase of Playwright Hayes's The Desperate Hours; instead of a hoodlum holding a family at gunpoint for 48 hours, the corporate raider holds an entire board of directors at penpoint for the same time span...