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Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). The Young in Heart, with Alan Mowbray...
Then he hits the jackpot. As his front lawn is piled high with cartons of soup, dressed beef, a grand piano, fruit trees and ponies, as a feline portrait painter (Patricia Medina) and a lacy interior decorator (Alan Mowbray) move in on him, Stewart plunges into a glassy-eyed nightmare that costs him his job, threatens his marriage, gets him clapped into jail...
...wheeling fooling, that it will please practically anybody some of the time and practically nobody all of the time. People who like first-rate finesse will enjoy bits of brisket from Kurt Weill's musical ribroast, the most teasing twists in Ira Gershwin's lyrics, and Alan Mowbray pretending to be Eric Blore pretending to be George Washington. People who like oafishly coy satire about on a par with summer-camp imitations of Gilbert & Sullivan will find stretches of that. Between these broad extremes, however, the show rumbles along Technicolorfully and, on the whole, quite amusingly, with some...
Notable bit: white-tied Alan Mowbray, quite sufficiently listed as an "English Gentleman," dislocating the rest of the film by his monumental, effortless detachment towards Robert Young, his own surroundings, and the comedy in general...
...expect, and who makes love quite correctly. Laurence Olivier as Lord Nelson is scarcely more than adequate, although at times he gives indication of genuine acting ability. However, honors for acting go to the supporting roles of Sir William Hamilton and the phlegmatic Captain Hardy, convincingly portrayed by Alan Mowbray and Henry Wilcoxon. Nevertheless, the picture is a historical love story of the type which has been done before many times, and much better...