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Still, he is hired to defend a physician (played by Robert Colbert) who has been accused of murdering his very-nekkid wife, but who claims that the real killer was a bedroom intruder with a "ghost-like" shape. Predictably, Petrocelli is denied requests for a change of venue and sequestration of the jury, is harassed by the state troopers and pelted by the citizens, and has his client labeled a "wife-slayer" by the television commentator prior to the outcome. Besides that, everyone keeps mispronouncing his name...
...Nekkid Girl. Fulbright is still the leader in preprimary polls, but he faces a broad spectrum of dissatisfaction in Arkansas. The state's many hawks are angered by his Viet Nam stand. Labor officials are testy about his indifference. Negroes and white liberals are fed up with his consistent votes against civil rights laws, most recently open housing. He has even irritated some up-country puritans because he wrote an article for Playboy that appeared embarrassingly close to a gatefold photograph of what one foe described, in a shocked voice, as "a nekkid girl...
...Metalious wrote the book, does not look the part) is prim, bleak or beautiful, but never stagy, and the townsfolk extras look and act like people. What is even rarer, so do most of the actors. Dialogue between a couple of beady-eyed spring peepers at a swimming hole: "Nekkid?" "Nekkid!" Arthur Kennedy, as a bestial Yankee shack dweller, is frightening, but a little too garrulous for a New Englander, even a drunken one. Newcomer Hope Lange is finely fraught as his stepdaughter. Lana Turner plays a mother who is a bundle of nerves about bundling...
...hero and heroine are thoroughly drab; the comic characters are far more interesting. The villain dominates the proceedings, but it is doubtful whether he is a serious or a comic character. One moment he is a brutal, psychopathic murderer who keeps pictures of nekkid women on his walls. The next moment, the best sequence in the show, he is made fun of in a riotous song. "Pore Jud Gray Is Dead." Two minutes after Jud has accidentally killed himself in a fight with the hero, the lovers ride off singing the hit song, "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning...
...nekkid woman," someone ventures...