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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arrested for knocking the tops off parking meters, Luke (Paul Newman) draws a two-year sentence. For a drifter who finds even open society confining, prison ought to prove unbearable, but Luke plays it cool. Eventually, he wins over his most hostile fellow inmates by refusing to knuckle under to the sadistic guards. One day he receives a telegram that his mother has died. She is his last tenuous touch with the outside world, and under the strain, he finally cracks. Sitting on his bunk, Luke, an avowed village atheist, brokenly sings a parody of an oldtimey hymn...
...caught each time. By now he has become almost a legend to the prisoners, who vicariously enjoy his flings at freedom. But when the jailers beat and overwork Luke until he grovels at their feet for mercy, the inmates turn their backs on him. Luke, played by Newman with his customary cocky resilience, has one more race up his sleeve, steals a truck when the guards casually turn their backs on him, and zooms off. Chain Gang showed Paul Man failing with success-he made good his escape, but turned to crime to stay alive. Paul Newman succeeds by failing...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Hud (1963), starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas and Brandon de Wilde...
JUSTICE FOR ALL? (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Edwin Newman searches for answers among the urban, migrant and rural poor, who have often been denied access to the law. Cameras focus on low-income people in Cleveland, Salinas, Calif., and rural Oklahoma. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas and local administrators discuss the problems and possible remedies...
...Tiger Makes Out concerns a 42-year old mailman, and he is not played by Paul Newman or George Peppard. Eli Wallach squnched-in face and all, stars in this major, technicolor release. His wife, Anne Jackson, co-stars, and they are backed up by a cadre of New York-based actors, most of whom you'll recognize from Naked City and Car 54, Where...