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Vincent Price is that something more. Released from his years as the Mysterious Stranger, Price plays a blood-and-guts movie hero who takes himself seriously off-stage. Complete with a flowing cape, several long rifles, and a Shakespearean vocabulary, Price hams his way through the last half of the picture, providing some of the funniest movie scenes within recent memory...
...most distinguished names on its list of credits: Director Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film. It will be a glorified trailer, shot in color, and intended to show just what Cinerama can do that ordinary movies cannot. Sample items: a helicopter flight over Niagara Falls, the Salzburg Festival, Shakespearean plays at Stratford-on-Avon, possibly the Sadler's Wells Ballet...
...Great Shakespearean Moments (Sun. 12:30 p.m., NBC). Recordings of Ellen Terry, Sir Henry Irving, Otis Skinner, Edward Sothern and Julia Marlowe...
Currently starring in the hit revival of Twentieth Century, and best known for his stage & screen acting of Cyrano do Bergerac, 39-year-old José Ferrer remains a frustrated Shakespearean actor. His only Broadway appearance in Shakespeare was as sharply etched Iago to paul Robeson's 1943 Othello. This week, with José Ferrer Presents Shakespeare (Sun. 10 p.m.) over Manhattan's station WNEW, he got a zealot's chance to share his bardolatry with a wide audience...
Ferrer's show, aimed at listeners who were discourages in their youth by a "day and dusty classroom introduction to the master," offers a grab-bag variety of Shakespearean scenes, soliloquies, entire plays. For radio serial lovers, there is a four-installment version of Julius Caesar complete with synopses ("Amid the carnival-like entry of Caesar, the procession passes through the streets of Rome, leaving behind Brutus, who ponders Caesar's behavior, and Cassius, who waxes lean and hungry with petty resentment..."). Amatuer talent scouts had a chance to vote for the best of three recorded Hamlets (John...