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SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). "Christ Is Born" re-creates the wanderings of the Jews from the time of Abraham to the birth of Christ. John Secondari and John Huston are the narrators...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Legend of Marilyn Monroe," narrated by John Huston-who directed her first well-known film (The Asphalt Jungle) and her last (The Misfits...
...After all, it might have been worse. Producer Dino De Laurentiis originally intended to tackle the entire Old Testament, hiring every writer, actor and director in creation for a series of films running Lord knows how long. He has settled for 22 chapters of Genesis, compressed by Director John Huston into three hours of empty illustrations from Scripture...
...long way from The Beginning to the end. The Word is interpreted altogether literally, neither revitalized with the logic of drama nor illuminated by the magic of myth. The film simply plunges ahead with quasi-King Jamesian narration, supplied by Playwright Christopher Fry and spoken by Huston himself, a mighty celestial circuit rider on the sound track. "God blessed them and said: Multiply," the voice intones, clearing the way for a shot of fuzzy, nuzzling seals and simultaneously raising questions of identity. There is somebody up there, all right, but who? A director, a Deity, or Our Man in Disneyland...
After Eden, the film follows the baffling genealogy of Genesis from Cain and Abel, through Noah, to the story of Abraham. Lineage becomes a problem, and at one point the burgeoning family of man crowds the screen with something resembling a pyramid of Chinese acrobats. Huston plays Noah, mugging simplicity as he takes his orders from the Almighty, cramming in a lot of low comedy aboard the Ark and looking sorely tempted to burst into the Rodgers & Hammerstein admonition that chicks 'n' ducks 'n' geese better scurry. Generally, the acting style is holier-than-thou...