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Obviously this is a situation for Boris Karloff; perhaps, looked at differently, one for the Marx Brothers. It serves Thomas' purposes because of what has been made of the character of the doctor who receives the bodies: a man of great stature, at once a cold misanthrope and a burning fanatic in the cause of human amelioration, with the necessity raging inside him to alienate the spiritually fat-bottomed of the universe (that is, most of us) by telling unpleasant truths...
Roddy MacDowall, Eartha Kitt, Oscar Homolka and Boris Karloff in a dramatization of Joseph Conrad's eerie master piece, Heart of Darkness...
...once urbane and eerie, Deadly Game achieved some of the quality of a Lord Dunsany shocker, benefited from skilled construction as well as from Actor Merrill's supple playing at the head of a sure cast, including Boris Karloff and Harry Townes. Closing scene: Merrill's widow, no angel either, drops in unexpectedly, agrees to stay for dinner and perhaps a parlor game afterward to take her mind off her bereavement...
...swarming, unswept streets of cinematic commerce (cops-and-robbers films, childish westerns), lies a dank catacomb, for years the lair of wound-up scientists, unwound mummies, vampires, hyperpituitary apes, cat men, spacemen and skirt-chasing tyrannosaurs. Here budgets are low, actors obscure (Bela Lugosi is dead and Boris Karloff has graduated to TV) and taglines visceral: The Man Who Turned to Stone ("Incredible revelations from the blackest annals of medicine!"), Zombies of Mora Tau ("A tide of terror!''), Half Human ("Half-man, half-beast, but ALL MONSTER...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). "The Boyhood of William Shakespeare." adapted by Drama Critic Walter Kerr, narrated by Boris Karloff; Cleveland Amory looks at U.S. society from 1900-14; French Actor Jean-Louis Barrault and his actress-wife Madeleine Renaud in a series of sketches...