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...this overlong first step in the cinematic canonization of John F. Ken nedy, Actor Cliff Robertson wisely jettisons any attempt at the J.F.K. speech and hair styles. It is bad enough to hear shipmates Ty Hardin and Robert Gulp talk disrespectfully to the gung-ho young lieutenant, but then, they didn't realize he was going to be President. Only Kennedy knew that...
...little picture for the double-bill circuits. But blown up out of proportion in deference to the man who is now the Great Big Skipper, and yakked up out of believability by miles of comic relief, it has become a wide-screen campaign poster. One merciful antidote: smiling Cliff Robertson has been allowed by Director Leslie Martinson to play Skipper Jack with vigor, not vigah; there isn't a single hand-stabbing J.F.K. mannerism in sight...
Dunster: Peter S. Britell, Alfred L. Goldberg, Norman J. Levitt, Lance Morrow, Cary L. Robertson, Seth A. Shaffer, Robert E. Sloane...
...casting for James Bond and Honeychile Rider, his principal mate, was almost as demanding as that for PT-109, and JFK will be lucky if Cliff Robertson fills him out the way Sean Connery does James Bond. Despite an annoying Scottish accent and some awkwardness in the early scenes, Connery almost pulls it off and his Bond is the sort of polished professional for whom Fleming's congregation has been waiting. Better still, Ursulla Andress (reportedly known as "Undress" on location) is just the sort of girl a tired agent deserves, and when she squeezes into a pink and white...
...Died. Sir Howard Morley Robertson, 74, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1952 to 1954, a curiously two-sided architect who remained firmly on the side of tradition in such sound and solid buildings as the British pavilions at four international exhibitions and the New Royal Horticultural Hall in London, but gained his greatest fame as a highly progressive teacher of the '20s and '30s, encouraging his students to follow the emerging modern architecture that he never employed in his own work; after a long illness; in London...