Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic question is not the trite old "Who Killed Cock Robin?" but the more modern "Am I the Sparrow?" The hero (Ralph Richardson) is a white-collar Briton who comes chirruping home from his desk at the bank one Monday to find that it is not Monday at all-it is Tuesday. Somehow, 24 hours of his life have got lost. To make matters worse, a man was murdered on Richardson's psychological day off and a powder train of explosive evidence leads straight to his door...
...leading man, Ralph Richardson seems sometimes to be trying to convey so many subtle expressions at once that the audience gets only a physiognomic blur. In general, though, he comes through clearly and often very delicately as a man whose sturdily conventional head has been subjected to a little more than the traffic will bear...
...director of the film, Richardson does even better work. From Michael Shepley, cast as one of Richardson's friendly neighbors, he has drawn an expert impression of manic, empty geniality. And he wins from Margaret Leighton, as Richardson's wife, a heart-shaking portrayal of what it means to face the curded eye of madness with nothing more than a nice disposition...
Theater Royal (Sun. 9:30 p.m., NBC). The Tale with Sir Ralph Richardson...
Designer of the new laboratory is the Boston firm of Shopley, Bullfinch, Richardson, and Abbott, architects for the University. Construction was started early in 1951 and was completed this past summer...