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...proved himself on the field; they were happy if he did not defect to the enemy. But in this century of total war, the prison camp has become an extension of the battlefield. Totalitarian nations are not content merely to extract information from a P.O.W. They often hound and harass a man for months and even years in order to win his mind and soul, to reduce him to an instrument of propaganda. It is, of course, a tactic that the Soviet Union devised for use against its own political prisoners, as dramatized with terrifying realism in Arthur Koestler...
Next to the base figures, such exalted ones as Oliver (Mark Lester), Nancy (Shani Wallis) and other do-gooders inevitably seem insipid trifles. But even the knaves are topped by two performers: Bill Sikes' companion, a mangy, miserable mongrel, is the least appealing, most memorable dog since the Hound of the Baskervilles. And Jack Wild, 15, as The Artful Dodger, has polished gravel for a voice, a Toby jug for a head, and the suggestion of fame for a future. As well might be. The last boy to play the Dodger onscreen was a cockney-of-the-walk...
...icebox. The man, the MAN, the whole cause of everything. He's on the tube, can you believe, singing in a torrent of sweat in a black leather suit--no, wait, it's a high-roll collar dealie, and can you dig his pants? Heartbreak Hotel? Raunchy as ever? Hound Dog? It's too good to be true! That quiver that makes girls moan from their stomachs made me shriek at the top of my lungs: "Elvis, Elvis, you son of a bitch, you are the KING...
...WARDEN threw a party in the county jail." Lieber-Stoller. Mike and Jerry. Then practically made Elvis. So many songs: "Hound Dog," "Heartbreak Hotel," "Little Egypt," on and on and on. "Jailhouse Rock," according to Peter Hayes, who anyone who is at all hip in Cambridge should know, or at least heard of, says: 'Jailhouse Rock' is the greatest song ever written." It's true...
SINGER PRESENTS ELVIS (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Elvis writhes to some old favorites: Hound Dog, Love Me Tender, Heartbreak Hotel...