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SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S "GUYS AND DOLLS" (ABC, 8-11 p.m.).* Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Elaine re-create the world of Damon Runyon in the 1955 film version of Broadway's Guys and Dolls...
...pans. "The heart of the film lies pickled in the formaldehyde of the Thirties," wrote the Sun, and the Daily Sketch mourned: "It croaks and creaks like an aged mechanical toy." Director Chaplin, who played only a cameo role in Countess and left the acting to Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando, said that he couldn't care less about the reviews: "I still think it's a great film, and I think the audiences will agree with me rather than with the critics...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Part 1 of The Young Lions (1958), with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift in outstanding performances as German and American soldiers during World War II. Remember carefully-the second part won't be aired until next Sunday...
...stake their claims to a strumpet and a stallion, the enmity between them can be the stuff that fleshes out the bony structure of the very best westerns. But in this film, a mulish scenario puts a frustrating checkrein on the excitement, and it is slim pickings for Marlon Brando, playing a saddle tramp whose dream is to become a horse breeder, and John Saxon, portraying a Mexican bandit chieftain who has a girl (Anjanette Comer) up for grabs in his lair...
...literature--is simply a disaster. When it was concluded at the opening performance, one outraged man in the audience let out with a resounding boo; and only critical decorum prevented its being joined by at least one more. Joyce--and anyone else essaying the role--should study and restudy Marlon Brando's glorious Antony in the 1953 movie version...