Word: sergio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PERRY COMO HOLIDAY SPECIAL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Perry's 20th anniversary as a TV headliner is bolstered by the presence of Rowan and Martin, the Jefferson Airplane, Bobbie Gentry, and Sergio Mendes and Brasil...
...director, John Sturges, uses the same technique Sergio Leone did in Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. Sequences, especially those leading up to a shooting match, look like they're filmed in slow motion. They aren't. It's just that the camera--instead of sticking to a man, dogging him step by step--focuses on what's static around him. Expanses of desert or mountain or sun-bleached wall. So the violence that ensues seems less the result of cowboy determination than of fate...
...courtroom scene, for example, he dissolves from one witness to the next--stages a few artificial flare-ups between leaders and followers. And to pick up the pace still more, he produces some split-second moral dilemmas for W. Earp. Sturges should have been loyal either to Sergio Leone or to the TV economy of Gunsmoke. As it is, we get a mishmash of temper tantrums and long trail rides--and in the bargain, no hero...
Wednesday, October 11 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). *George Burns hosts "Tin Pan Alley Today," with Guests Dionne Warwick, Dick Cavett, the Harper's Bizarre, Tony Tanner, Nancy Ames, Sergio Mendes and Brasil...
Climax has stopped being funny now, as Sergio literally begins to die of loving. Unfortunately, Producer-Writer-Director Pietro Germi almost spoils his curiously bittersweet comedy about the trials of trigamy with a mawkish funeral finale in which Sergio's voice provides a disembodied commentary. But not even this last false touch dims the luster of Actor Tognazzi's exquisitely humane performance as a man who loves not wisely but too well...