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...film is at its best when it takes affectionate backward glances: at Harold Lloyd with some adroit window ledgerdemain, at the Modcap costumes of the period, at such ricky-ticky tunes of the '20s as Baby Face and Japanese Sandman. But when nostalgia dims, so does the picture's brightness. The new songs by James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn are tepid at best, and Joe Layton's dance interludes are as spurious as bathtub gin, introduced solely to juice up a weak scenario...
Friday, September 23 T.H.E. CAT (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat, ex-cat burglar turned gangbuster, does it again in The Sandman, as Cat (Robert Loggia) tries to save an old friend, a jewel thief, from his own kind...
...narrator, an oddly dressed fellow named Mr. Nod (I always called him the sandman) wanders through the world spreading the Moral Rearmament message. He is encouraged when an American astronaut returns to report that he did see (or at least hear) God in space. Naturally enough, that's why he found it so startling...
CHILDREN, THE SANDMAN IS COMING. "Do you still believe in storks and peace doves?" queried the Vienna daily Express as Nikita Khrushchev started his visit to Austria. Austrians evidently did not. Simply by cold silence they turned Khrushchev's first good-will tour outside the Iron Curtain since the summit into a road show flop...
...Sandman. In Ashiya, Japan, a ten-day crackdown on horn blowing was so successful that the only traffic accident during the period involved a driver who fell asleep at the wheel...