Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides playing Shanks, Marceau appears as the old scientist and gets the chance to wear a great deal of makeup. Little else can be said of his first major screen appearance except that he is admirably limber. Castle is using him as a come-on for his movie, as if Marceau were a skeleton that glows or a hotwired seat...
...mute. Since he is played by Marcel Marceau, he is also a mime and really requires no words. The plot, which is crusted with mold, involves a fantasy in which Shanks dreams of a spooky old house (not the one on Haunted Hill, however), a nice old mad scientist and his experiments in which the dead can be made mobile like puppets...
...Nature's publication, was the unprecedented almost apologetic editorial that accompanied the Stanford Research Institute report. In the editorial, Nature's editors not only criticized the SRI paper but also pointedly called attention to the same week's issue of another respected British magazine, New Scientist, which carried a lengthy exposé that undermined both Geller and the SRI report...
Something old, something new-or newer, anyway. A dotty old bomb expert concocts a superbomb that he uses to blackmail an entire city. About 20 years ago it was called Seven Days to Noon. The city was London, and the scientist attempting to stop construction of atomic weapons threatened everyone with thermonuclear destruction if his demands were not met. In the movie's own stiff and militaristic terms, this was enough to establish the scientist's madness. Preparedness was quite the thing back then, and anyone who wanted to stop the arms race was probably round the bend...
Wide World Special. Walter Cronkite, interviewed by Dick Cavett, will speak on his news preparation, Watergate, and possible government attempts to suppress the media. Cronkite and Cavett should make a rare duo: the straight-forward user and the witty abuser of language, the scientist and the alchemist of current events on television. Ch. 5, 12:30 a.m. 1 1/2 hours...