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...casting of that archetypal movie star of the '50s, Burt Lancaster, as the leading trespasser on Government property. His SAC nemesis is Richard Widmark, still energizing his performances with a subtle suggestion of psychopathy. Playing the President's closest advisers are such good, gray actors as Melvyn Douglas, Joseph Gotten and Leif Erickson. It is all rather comforting to see these old companions in adventure from bygone matinees. Director Aldrich, a veteran purveyor of thrills in all the low-caste genres, knows how to work this territory, nipping lightly on the nerve endings in the early going, then...
This is a dissertation on the law at the Supreme Court level, but within the province of dramatic jurisprudence it is a draggy, flaccid, unconvincing brief. First Monday in October is having its premiere at the Cleveland Play House, and if Jean Arthur and Melvyn Douglas were not in it, the play's obituary might well be written at the same time...
...hero, Justice Daniel Snow (Melvyn Douglas) is inspired by William O. Douglas. The heroine, Ruth Loomis, played by Jean Arthur, is quite simply hatched from the current foofaraw over women's lib. She is the first woman to be appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court. Her late husband, whose views she apparently shares, was a conservative of the Neanderthal stripe. Obviously, she irks Justice Snow. One of the internal contradictions of the play is that Snow, despite his liberal views, is some thing of a chauvinistic fossil when it comes to accepting women on the high bench...
...Paul Newman as a rich, arrogant Texan. With Oscar-winning performances from Melvyn Douglas and Patricia Neal. Ch. 7, 11:45 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...
Though living in two worlds-and sometimes mastering both-can be exhilarating, it can also be agonizing. A certain schizophrenia comes all too easily. "There is no consistency between my social life and my business life," complains Melvyn Huckaby, a Houston oral surgeon who lives among whites and works among blacks. "I'm on the front line all the time. It depresses me." The demands of middle-class life have produced some new strains. Says Thomas Freeman, director of continuing education at Texas Southern University: "All through high school and college I was told that blacks do not commit...