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...into a cliche-stocked, ho-humdrum thriller about a TV star (Stuart Whitman) who murders his rich-bitch wife (Eleanor Parker) in Reel Two, and for the next 80 minutes is dogged doomward by the police (Barry Sullivan), his wife's father (Lloyd Nolan), a former mistress (Janet Leigh), and his own conscience. The few amusing moments are provided by Actor Whitman, a young man with a large chest and a small talent who apparently intends to portray Modern Man in Search of a Soul, but actually looks like a beach boy stumbling around in search of a lost...
Other 1966-67 marquee names that will ring a bell and, as the producers calculate, the cash registers: John Raitt in A Joyful Noise; Vivien Leigh in Love and Other Games; Melina Mercouri in Never on Sunday; and Menasha Skulnik and Molly Picon in Chu Chem, a cynically commercial concoction billed as "a Zen Buddhist-Hebrew musical...
...wide for the medium." So he tried to turn it into a play, then a musical. By 1962 he had fashioned an interesting if offbeat script dealing with Cervantes' windmill-tilting life. And tilting a little himself, he started collaborating with a couple of unknowns, Songwriter Mitch Leigh and Lyricist Joe Darion. Albert Marre (Kismet, Milk and Honey) agreed to direct; Singer Joan Diener and Perennial Leading Man Richard Kiley (Redhead, No Strings) signed on as leads...
...Janet Leigh appears briefly as Newman's wife, and both the character and the marriage seem wonderfully out of place in Harper. Miss Leigh's performance--for all its brevity--is a minor...
Morning brings him a chirping plague of creditors, the numbing guilt of not loving a wife (Vivien Leigh) who is dying of tuberculosis, and the intrusive ardor of a romantic girl who is pursuing her own phantom of love. Around Ivanov, vivid, vulgar, irascibly self-absorbed neurotics drown boredom in vodka and talk, the opiate of the Russian gentry. Ivanov punctuates their endless sentences with a bullet in his brain...