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...Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum in River of No Return...
...FEAR!" and once in a while it does; but most of the time it makes him feel condescending. Its tricks of terror are too obviously tricks, and the unreality is reassuring-even soporific. What's more, at 46, Peck really ought to stop doing the boyish bit. But Mitchum as usual makes a nice shiny reptile, and it's gory good fun to watch Peck cut him up into handbags...
Cape Fear (Universal-International). "You can't put a man in jail for what he might do." The hero (Gregory Peck) nods grimly. As a lawyer, he knows that the chief of police is right. But that doesn't solve his problem: a rapist (Robert Mitchum) he once caught in the act has been released from jail and has returned to North Carolina to take revenge on the lawyer and his family. How to stop...
...clients ranged from Errol Flynn to Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin to Smoky Bob Mitchum. He was attacked as a publicity hound and had a reputation as a fast man at taking on sensational cases: when the Beverly Hills cops first arrived at the home of Lana Turner after her daughter had stabbed Johnny Stompanato, Giesler opened the door. But underneath all the star-spangled headlines was a quiet, brilliant lawyer, an ambivalence chaser and not an ambulance chaser, who third-guessed his opposition and won his cases less by theatrics than by thorough and meticulous preparation...
Giesler's client Robert Mitchum, ar rested for smoking marijuana, also went to jail. Although Giesler was fairly sure that Mitchum had been framed, he counseled against a not-guilty plea in order to avoid the added publicity of a drawn-out jury trial. "My handling of the Mitchum and Wanger cases saved the motion-picture industry much grief," Giesler said much later in his as-told-to book with Saturday Evening Post Writer Pete Martin, "but they didn't appreciate it then. They don't appreciate it now. It has always been the industry...