Word: kwai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8-11:10 p.m.). For the occasional viewer who may have missed it first time around on TV (some 71 million tuned in), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), starring Alec Guinness, William Holden and Jack Hawkins...
...novel by Pierre Boulle (The Bridge on the River Kwai) about the conflict of man and monkey was a clever, abrasive piece of science friction. But on the screen the story has been reduced from Swiftian satire to self-parody. The script is cluttered with man-monkey analogies, as crude as "Human see, human do," "I never met an ape I didn't like" and "he was a gorilla to remember." At one point, three of the simians simultaneously cover their eyes, ears and mouth. The best thing about the film results from Producer Arthur P. Jacobs' decision...
...raid siren, as Radio Kol Israel interrupted its regular broadcast to announce that heavy fighting had begun against "Egyptian armored and aerial forces which moved against Israel." Lively Jewish folk tunes, rousing Israeli pioneer songs and stirring military marches, including the theme song from The Bridge on the River Kwai, filled the air waves until Defense Minister Dayan came on. His message, like the man, was economical and blunt, concluding with: "Soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, on this day our hopes and security are with...
...Happening bears all the errmarks of the amateur effort. Yet the man responsible is Sam Spiegel, producer of such impressive hits as Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge on the River Kwai -both overseas productions. The Happening is a homemade bomb. Next time, Spiegel should reapply for foreign aid. Et cetera...
...special, two-hour TV-movies being filmed by Universal Pictures, NBC was in gleeful possession of at least the No. 2 and 4 ratings among all the movies shown this season-topped only by ABC's incredibly popular rerun of a movie-movie, Bridge on the River Kwai. With five more such originals to follow-at a cost of $750,000 to $1,000,000 apiece-NBC is all but assured of the only conspicuous new success of the year...