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Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Let It Be Me, corruption in the recording industry, with Eddie Albert, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Ruggles...
...takes a job as children's companion and domestic aide in order to get background for a lampooning novel about suburbia. He has several classic moments--among them a wonderfully droll bit when he chastises an infant for throwing cereal by emptying the bowl on the youngster's head. Maureen O'Hara and Robert Young perform adequately as the harassed couple in typical domestic comedy fashion with soap-opera naivete. The script is often forced and depends on such cliches as prying neighbors, bosses chasing their secretaries, and the like...
Obviously, Frank Wead's story is worth telling-but hardly the way Ford & Co. tell it. They turn his naval career into a bell-bottom farce, his marriage (to Maureen O'Hara) into a pointlessly unpleasant shore-leave shenanigan, and they simplify the commander's character to the point where even Actor Wayne has to play down to his part...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Rachel, with Maureen Stapleton as Mrs. Andrew Jackson...
Director Ray Milland was able to arrange it for Leading Man Ray Milland to be endlessly pursued by the women in the picture. Maureen, after nuzzling with Ray in her hotel room, visiting historic Sintra and going for a ride in his speedboat, is so enraptured that she offers Rains $1,000,000 to deliver her husband dead so that she can inherit his vast fortune and buy Ray a new boat. And spirited Yvonne keeps sneaking out of the seraglio to sigh against Ray's shoulder and warn him to be careful. Ray has scarcely time left over...