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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.).*William Holden and Lilli Palmer in The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), based on the real-life exploits of Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who sympathized with the Germans but spied for the Allied High Command in World...
...that Marx is gone, his journalist wife Lilli, 45, has assumed complete ownership. Editor in Chief Hermann Levy, 56, who supervises a 24-man staff, worked with Marx for 17 years. Moreover, the Weekly is making a tidy profit, and its circulation continues to grow at a considerably faster rate than the Jewish community. The paper will no doubt maintain its power because it has proved to be as important to Germany as it has been to the Jewish community. "We Germans need a watchdog for our democracy," says Axel Springer, the nation's biggest press lord. "That...
Thursday, September 23 THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). William Holden, Lilli Palmer and Hugh Griffith in The Counterfeit Traitor, a rousing World War II spy story...
...George Peppard and Dutch Engineer Tom Courtenay, both smuggled into Germany with false papers to volunteer for work at a secret underground rocket center. Courtenay runs afoul of the Gestapo while Peppard struggles with cumbersome explanations as to why everyone can safely speak English. He gets help from Innkeeper Lilli Palmer, spends an edgy night with Sophia Loren because he happens to be impersonating her dead husband. Loren's brief role seems little more than a favor to her real-life husband, Carlo Ponti, who is Crossbow's producer...
What could be done is what the producers did: they hired Lilli Palmer to play the actress, Jean Sorel to play her callow paramour, and Charles Boyer -that great screen lover of yore-to play the cuckolded husband. In a secondary role, Boyer deftly blends temperament and tolerance to contrast against the beautiful worthlessness of Sorel. But Julia becomes most adorable when Actress Palmer wriggles into character to show all the charm, vanity, insight, ego, witchery and wit of a woman who would rather have top billing than top cooing. Enjoying a last fling at youth, Julia tucks away...