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Ignorant Texans are the targets, and Scenarist Hellman blows the lid off a snake pit of contemporary evil when the town's bad boy, Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford), escapes from prison and heads home to settle scores among a scroungy lot of drunken, wife-swapping, white-collar workers who carry their pistols to parties of a Saturday night. "Shoot a man for sleepin' with someone's wife?" cries a roundheeled young matron, Janice Rule. "Half the town 'ud be wiped out." Poor Bubber's Mama (Miriam Hopkins), cast as Parental Guilt, hysterically accepts blame...
...plot, a slapdaptation of Actor-Author Robert Shaw's straight-faced novel The Hiding Place, gropes for drollery in the plight of two American airmen (Michael Connors and Robert Redford) who arrive in Germany by parachute and seek refuge in Prick's basement bomb shelter...
Five or six years pass. Cats beget kittens, frauleins beget G.I. issue from the Army of Occupation, bad jokes beget worse ones, and Producer-Director Gottfried Reinhardt (whose wife, Silvia, perpetrated the scenario) underscores the ironies by barreling in beer-hall background music. Actor Redford, a winner on Broadway (Barefoot in the Park), overworks his smooth, stagy comedy style to diminishing effect. Working even harder, Actor Connors curiously resembles those lacquered leading men who proliferated in Hollywood during the '40s while everyone else was away...
...DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Robert Redford plays an escaped convict trying to prove his innocence. Repeat...
...Rather Reason. Lyndon's saving grace was what a fellow student, Dr. Emmette S. Redford, now on the University of Texas faculty, calls his "inquisitive mind and intense interest in everything related to politics." That interest was encouraged by his father, a state legislator, and spurred Lyndon's lifelong interest in public speaking. As a high school debater. Lyndon with another student won a countywide debate competition. In most of his dealings, recalls Redford, Lyndon "tried to win his points with words-he'd reason and argue instead of fighting-and in those days kids had plenty...