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...View from the Bridge. Playwright Arthur Miller's attempt to find Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush makes about as much sense as building a brownstone Parthenon, but Director Sidney Lumet has filmed the play with pace and intelligence, and Actor Raf Vallone, as the stevedore-hero, has the brute force of a cargo hook...
Scene by scene the film is written-mostly by Playwright Miller; Scenarist Norman Rosten made few additions to the play-with clear intelligence and rude male force. In his direction, despite a tendency to get cute with the camera, Sidney Lumet often achieves a noble seriousness that makes the drama seem almost a rite-as is only appropriate: classic tragedy was the Dionysian counterpart of the Christian Mass. The actors without exception excel, but Actor Vallone beggars comparison. He is the gritty essence of stevedore. He looks like one of Michelangelo's Captives, half man. half rock...
John Brown's Raid (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).* A re-enactment of history, directed by Sidney Lumet, taped on location at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and starring James Mason...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). Directed by Broadway's Sidney (Caligula) Lumet, James Mason, Trevor Howard and Richard Basehart star in an adaptation of Robert Shaw's new novel, The Hiding Place, (TIME, Feb. 22). The plot: R.A.F. flyers are prisoners of a crazed German...
Cleanly translated by Justin O'Brien, strikingly directed by Sidney Lumet, and with Kenneth Haigh giving an unstinting, unflinching performance in the title role, and Philip Bourneuf and others lending helpful support, Caligula yet falls short of the mark and too often goes slack...