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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Manchurian Candidate has Laurence Harvey as a brainwashed zombie, Angela Lansbury as his mum, Frank Sinatra as a good guy and Janet Leigh as his careful doll...
...TALE OF PETER RABBIT (Wonderland). This tops all other versions of the oft-told Beatrix Potter classic. Vivien Leigh tells it as if she had grown up at the foot of the old fir tree, and Lyricist David Croft and Musician Cyril Ornadel hit it off like Lerner & Loewe. It takes a hard heart not to melt at naughty Peter's wistful "Why do I do it?" Pity that this team has cut only two other Potter records: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
Newman responds sharply as a cool and clean-cut Bogeyman who never drinks hard stuff in the morning, never chases broads except for business purposes. His wife, Janet Leigh, loves him, hates his job, wants to slow him down just long enough to settle her suit for divorce...
...whole crew assembles in the first act for the archetypal boring, Chekhovian party. Thirteen characters saunter about, titter, and listen through their earhorns to the tittering of others. At the fall of the first-act curtain this same group swarms in with sparklers, pouring around the shocked Vivien Leigh who is staring at Sasha (Jennifer Hilary), the neighbor's daughter, in Ivanov's arms. Gielgud jars the audience, giving them perhaps two seconds to take in the entire scene...
...elements of Gielgud's Ivanov interfere with the general tone of the production--the two younger women and the problem of Ivanov's age. Miss Leigh and Miss Hilary try hard in extremely vapid roles. Chekhov was always weak at creating women who were neither old nor eccentric, and at this early stage of his career he was terrible. Miss Leigh might have played Ivanov's genteel, tubercular wife as a little more ill and a little less sweet, but simply coughing louder could not have added depth to a structurally shallow role. Miss Hilary is given two types...