Word: mcgoohan
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...PRISONER (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Those who missed the antics of imprisoned Hero Patrick McGoohan in the show last summer can catch the series this year...
...have on board a Russian refugee who's supposed to be helping us. You'll be able to identify him because he acts suspiciously and looks just like Ernest Borgnine. Patrick McGoohan is also with us-naturally, he's some kind of spy, as all of you who watch Secret Agent on television will know...
Regardless, the film has a nice little story and Hollywood can still handle these things with class now and then. A scene between Rock Hudson and Patrick McGoohan when the latter reveals the nature of the mission we've been wondering about for two hours is a model of well-written exposition, neatly paced and satisfying to all. Other crucial plot points crumble in treatment: the obligatory submarine flooding scene is telegraphed too early by deliberately distracting conversational small-talk injected suddenly into a script previously given over to cut-and-dried function. More irritating, 90 percent of the mechanics...
...kind of a groove and will evoke comfortable chuckling. After 2001, routine special effects simply don't pass by without a wince or two. The film's tight acting accounts for several of the small virtues, with Ernest Borgnine more disciplined than usual as a "mysterious Russian," and McGoohan (TV's Prisoner) having a high time with a performance which, though indistinguishable from any recent Burton or O'Toole job, shows he can handle second-rate dialogue with the best or them. Though McGoohan steals the picture, at least as far as the critics are concerned, I thought Rock Hudson...
...PRISONER (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Patrick McGoohan, formerly the weekly hero of Secret Agent, returns as a man incarcerated in a remote and mysterious community by unknown captors. His identity and the reasons for his imprisonment unfold as the series progresses. A summer replacement for the Jackie Gleason Show, Premi...