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Keeping Clean. Intelligence men's intrigues wash cleaner in To Trap a Spy and The Spy with My Face. Originally designed for home use, these television retreads are expanded versions of two episodes from MGM's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series (the seams still show). In Face, Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) seduces Thrush Agent Senta Berger somewhat more explicitly than he could before, when he had to take time out for commercials. In Trap, Luciana Paluzzi adds sex appeal until gunfire spoils her game, but the story really concerns an ordinary housewife (Patricia Crowley) who helps Solo foil...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Robert Morse plays a guy who is jilted at the altar and therefore decides to take his pal (Robert Goulet) on the leftover wedding trip. Honeymoon Hotel is the name of the comedy, and MGM perpetrated...
When the Boys Meet the Girls was snazzy back in 1943, when young Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney socked it across as a prime-quality MGM musical called Girl Crazy. Mickey was the Eastern playboy packed West to buckle down at Cody College, and Judy made extracurricular magic from such Gershwin standards as Embraceable You, Bidin' My Time, and I Got Rhythm...
...this remake, MGM cooks the goose that laid the golden egg. Rarely have so many charmless performers been assembled. Zing, freshness, warmth, humor and yay-team vitality have been banished-presumably to please a new generation that will never know what it missed. The Garland-Rooney roles are taken over by Singers Connie Francis and Harve Presnell, who mope through the vintage show tunes as though they have memorized the words and music while disowning the message. Instead of getting-the-gang-together-to-put-on-a-dandy-show, they are paying off a gambling debt for Connie...
When the cast assembled outside Ma drid one year ago on Dec. 28, they found almost ten acres of reproductions of Moscow streets and buildings, and three hours north, on the Spanish plains near Soria, were Zhivago's Ural settings. MGM, which financed the film, had all but given Lean a blank check. As a result, costume details, down to wool petticoats, were authentic and logistics were superb. Marveled Sir Ralph Richardson, "This is what it must have been like traveling with Napoleon...