Word: poitier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S "PORGY AND BESS" (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1959), with Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., Dorothy Dandridge and Pearl Bailey...
...doesn't think any decent woman should have lived through the ordeal, much less have borne a son to an Indian chieftain. Bibi is de fended by a trail scout (James Garner), who is determined to find the marshal who slew and scalped his Comanche wife. Broncobuster Sidney Poitier and Scottish Cavalryman Bill Travers pointedly underplay the long thought that a man's color or accent is no measure of his worth...
...STROLLIN' '20s (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Langston Hughes's memento of Harlem, with Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll and Duke Ellington...
...Slender Thread. At the Crisis Clinic, a suicide-prevention center in Seattle, a student volunteer (Sidney Poitier) embarks upon a life-or-death telephone conversation with an unhappy young matron (Anne Bancroft) who has locked herself in a motel room and taken an overdose of barbiturates. "What happened?" he asks. "Nothing, really," she answers helplessly. "I just didn't have anything...
Much of the problem may be that a suicidal lady who phones for help obviously intends to be saved, and suspense becomes a matter of mechanics. While the clock ticks away, while rescuers all around town carefully prolong the agony and news photographers batter at his door, Poitier behaves precisely like an Oscar-winning actor who has to work up an hour or more of excitement with a hot line as his only prop and such depressing pep talk as "You're something all your own, just as I am." Bancroft retaliates by spelling out her problem in flashbacks...