Word: melvyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* "Lamp at Midnight," a dramatized rendering of Galileo Galilei's 17th century argument with the Roman Catholic Church. Galileo (Melvyn Douglas) said the earth was round; the church and its prelates (George Voscovic, David Wayne) said he was wrong and what's more, a heretic. The Inquisition made Galileo take it back. To assure viewers that all is forgiven, Chicago Archbishop John Patrick Cody gives an introduction to the show...
...hardly a fresh Wind. The fictionalized treatment of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" was a 1955 play; the 1960 movie version has been run and rerun on television. But despite the script's many previous lives, Schaefer, employing Ed Begley and Melvyn Douglas from the Broadway cast, managed to make this reincarnation seem new and important...
...Only Melvyn Douglas finds fault with Schaefer-and even then he is apologetic: "There was one scene [in Inherit the Wind] with a little mild profanity," recalls Douglas. "The word was passed that the agency wanted the scene out. Schaefer said he'd fight for it, but in the final version it came out. Still, George is really a nice man, and he is organized. I can't tell you how important that...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Melvyn Douglas as the defense attorney and Ed Begley as the prosecutor in Inherit the Wind, the Scopes-trial drama of Broadway and movie fame. Color...
RAPTURE. In an astonishingly subtle performance, Patricia Gozzi (the disturbing nymphet of Sundays and Cybele) plays a lonely, imaginative girl with a fixation for a handsome criminal (Dean Stockwell). The girl's embittered father (Melvyn Douglas) and a slatternly servant (Gunnel Lindblom) agree to harbor the fugitive for reasons of their...