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Ford Theater (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). Boris Karloff in Arsenic and Old Lace...
Among the first few plays: The Corn Is Green, with Jane Cowl; The Barretts of Wimpale Street, with Basil Rathbone; On Borrowed Time, with Boris Karloff; Little Women, with Joan Caulfield...
...salvation in anything, and has turned cynically to ?.s.d. To the professor, the best thing for a country that has its back to the wall is to put its shoulder to the wheel. But nobody listens much to the professor (likably, gently played by Cinemenace Boris Karloff). Nor on Broadway did anybody listen much to Mr. Priestley. England, being itself the hero of The Linden Tree, would understandably give it a hearing. But simply as playwriting it is talky and lifeless...
...inspiring. Gary Cooper is the strong silent moral colonial, who raises not a single eyebrow when alone in the woods with Paulette Goddard. She is intensely feminine, idealistic, and a perfect complement for Cooper. Opposing them are completely villainous Howard Da Silva, and evil inscrutable Indian chief Boris Karloff. DcMille has chosen an Indian war of 1761 as the setting of "Unconquered" and has duly costumed hundreds of extras as colonials. British redcoats, and painted aborigines. Fearless colonial Gary Cooper twice frees beautiful bondslave Paulette Goddard from lecherous Howard Da Silva, then from the torture stake of Boris Karloff...
...begun to be rather tedious; perhaps slapstick is still, as always, a poor substitute for wit. Or perhaps the five dream-episodes, (three from the original story), funny as they may be, just don't completely redeem a routine "comedy-mystery"--routine even to the extent of including Boris Karloff...