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Kraft TV Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). Repeat of last month's dramatic hit, Patterns, by Rod Serling, with Richard Kiley, Ed Begley, Everett Sloane...
...play called Patterns, by Rod Serling. A many-sided study of top-level stress in a big corporation, the play had areas of strength and persuasiveness that made Executive Suite look like Little Women. The plot dealt with the arrival at the multimillion-dollar Ramsey & Co. of Richard Kiley, a young Midwest engineer who was being groomed to replace Ed Begley, veteran vice president. The sun around which both revolved was Bossman Everett Sloane, a tough, intelligent operator who handled power as if it were his own invention. The drama lay in the meteoric but uneasy rise of the young...
...slaps a former roadhouse entertainer (Jean Peters) in the teeth, knocks her out with a right to the jaw, and revives her by pouring a bottle of beer in her face. The B-girl retaliates by conking him over the head with another beer bottle. A Communist spy (Richard Kiley) beats up and shoots the girl, hits a cop over the head with a pistol, and kills an eccentric old necktie peddler (Thelma Ritter). The pickpocket knocks out the spy by smashing his head against a wall, slugs it out with him on a subway platform and on the tracks...
Plymouth Playhouse (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). The Turning Point, with Neva Patterson, Richard Kiley...
Adapted from his 1945 play, A Sound of Hunting, by Harry (A Walk in the Sun) Brown, the picture effectively depicts a war of ruins, rubble and mud-spattered patrols. The eight iron men are less convincing: they are types rather than real soldiers, e.g., the nervous G.I. (Richard Kiley), the philosophical G.I. (Nick Dennis), the amorous G.I. (Bonar Col-leano). But the film transfers the play to the screen with a muscular compactness and economy. Although it is only a minor cinematic skirmish, Eight Iron Men strikes an authentic ring of realism from the monotony...