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When his father suffers a fatal stroke, Jonas Cord Jr. (George Peppard) rushes straight home from the factory to make a pass at daddy's flammable blonde wife, Carroll Baker. "You wouldn't dare!" she screams. But in a movie like this, a statement like that means let's dance. In no time at all, the lady appears in black chiffon to ask: "How d'ya like my widow's weeds?" As the girl eventually transformed into Rina Marlowe, a doomed Hollywood sex goddess, Actress Baker seems uncertain about which actress living or dead...
...HOPE THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). George Peppard is an actor bitter at his inability to find work...
Separated from Actor James Farentino, she is presently invigorated by George Peppard. "I'm not going to grow up to be a man," she says. "Most actresses do. They're great people, but they're lousy women. They're the classic failures. They're the beautiful people. They're symbols. They feel a lot. They fail as women. To be a good human being, you have to adhere to the ethics of your work. Right? The ethics of the theater is that your personal problems cannot interfere with your work. Actresses have to compromise...
...lushest beauties. One soldier corrupts a trim Belgian violinist, Romy Schneider. Vince Edwards meets Rosanna Schiaffino. Eli Wallach, as a tough sergeant, sweats out an air raid abed with Jeanne Moreau. Hamilton pairs off with Elke Sommer, a free-living German girl whose parents approve of her enterprise. Peppard finds respite with Melina Mercouri, a black market wheeler-dealer. None can compare to the girl next door, of course, but war brings all manner of hardship...
...Foreman likes his irony set to music. While troop trucks slog through snow, he cuts to a slide announcing: THE MANAGEMENT OF THIS THEATER WISHES EVERYBODY A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 1945. EVERYBODY SING! Later, there is mawkish sentiment when some gentle British folk invite Peppard-on crutches-to have tea, then slip him a ten-shilling note, which cues in several bars of There'll Always Be an England...