Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollywood did not have Gregory Peck, it would be madness to think of converting this novel into a movie. Alistair MacLean's heroes are not only larger than life-they are a sort of flea's-eye view of the Colossus at Rhodes. An earlier book that MacLean sold to the movies was The Guns of Navarone...
...every moviegoer knows, Gregory Peck and David Niven blew up the guns of Navarone, and Alec Guinness destroyed the bridge on the Kwai. But in this picture, the late Jeff Chandler effaces himself so deftly that his star billing fades, and what is left is a memorable portrait of the late General Frank Merrill, carefully sketched from his long-stemmed apple-bowl pipe all the way in to the heart that survived a thrombosis during the campaign and the spirit that was beyond the reach of disease or the enemy...
...scene in which a band of schoolchildren is attacked, trained birds are used to fly menacingly close to the running children; mechanical birds, who peck at innocent napes, have been stitched to coat collars. Then four different strips of film are superimposed and cut into each other, drawing migratory flights photographed far away into the attack. Tippi Hedren, Hitchcock's new "classic beauty" discovery, is attacked by coveys of birds and desperately bats them off with a flashlight; to shoot the minute-long sequence, six days were required-with a dozen trained birds attacking, plenty of stuffed birds...
...eared formula for Irish comic fiction: to one seedy slice of life from an impoverished Irish boyhood add one outrageous old character who swears a blue streak, acts like a freak, and is lovable as all get out. Stir in plenty of Irish whisky, a peck of troubles, assorted downtrodden womenfolk, a hard-drinking priest, plenty of disputatious talk about the church...
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Ava Gardner in Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Color...