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...important fights are faked too. Some actors, e.g., Craig Stevens, who was once an amateur boxer, like to throw their own fists in the closeups, but directors are leary of such heroics. So far in 51 scraps, Stevens has had only one accident-a torn fingernail. Darren (Mike Hammer) McGavin has also had only one accident: a broken rib. Still, the producers prefer the standard technique of organizing camera angles so that stunt men can take over. (The stunt men get paid well; they can afford an occasional puffed lip.) The heroes must survive, pressed, currycombed and unscrambled...
With such swaggering cynicism Broadway Pro Darren (The Rainmaker) McGavin, 34, last week treated a New York audience to the second of a 39-show series of half-hour programs based on the sadistic, satyric, free-lance detective created by Mickey ("I'm not an author, I'm a writer") Spillane. Soon to be shown by 122 stations, the series entangles Hammer with every evil from white slavery to the wayward son of a chambermaid. A onetime tailback for the College of the Pacific, Actor McGavin looks natural tossing heavies down flights of stairs and giving the leather...
...bleeds him white, Schwiefka sets up a frame. Frankie finds himself in jail on a bum rap. In return for one night in the dealer's slot, Schwiefka bails him out. Frightened and discouraged, Frankie is an easy mark for the needle of Louie, the dope peddler (Darren McGavin), who suggests that just one little fix is all he needs to get him round the bend. One fix leads to another, and another to another, until one day he is sitting in a cheap hotel with a price on his head and nothing to stop the pain of being...
...Every Woman Knows, with the efforts of a plain girl's father and brothers to find her a husband. Lizzie is all the wrong things-uncoy, intelligent, blunt; failure unnerves her; and she is bleakly staring spinsterhood in the face when a posturing, flamboyant young con man (Darren McGavin) blusters in, swearing that for $100 he can bring rain. With the money in his jeans, he spouts philosophy, poetizes, woos the girl, teaches her to have faith in herself. By the time he rides off to make a new pitch, she is well on her way-with another beau...
...cast, without exception, is excellent Peggy Allenby, as Linda Loman, presents a subtly shaded characterization in a part that could have been no more than a mirror of the salesman's mind. As Willy's sons, Darren McGavin and Paul Langton become distinct individuals, each with some of their father's traits. Willy's brother Ben and his friend Charley are both finely-drawn by Royal Beal and Howard Smith...