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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (1961) bows on TV with Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta and Juanita Hall...
...film still tells essentially the same story: Chinese girl (Miyoshi Umeki), a "picture bride" from Hong Kong, meets Chinese-American boy (James Shigeta). But boy loves Chinese-American girl (Nancy Kwan), a nightspot stripper who wants to cover her nakedness with greenbacks. In the end, true love triumphs in a large, vulgar Chinese wedding...
...dull as the other kind. Cut and dried from Gwen Terasaki's bestselling autobiography, Bridge tells the story of a sweet young thing from back-country Tennessee (Carroll Baker) who in the middle '30s meets and marries a handsome young first secretary (James Shigeta) in the Japanese embassy in Washington. When the groom takes the bride back home to meet the folks, she makes all the predictable mistakes: wears her shoes in the house, interrupts when a man is talking, steps into a car before her husband, squeals when a male friend of the family attempts to share...
Holiday in Japan (at the New Frontier) is an Oriental variety show imported by Steve Parker, travel-happy husband of Cinemactress Shirley MacLaine (TIME, June 22). Ballad-belting M.C. James Shigeta imitates Elvis Presley with accurate Occidental accent, Belly Dancer Rie Taniuchi (34-21-35) oscillates through a Latin American cha cha cha, and the Nagata Kings pantomime a superb slapstick parody of baseball. What was missing from the start, by Vegas standards, was a satisfactory supply of nudes. But by week's end a number called Kyoto Doll was turning nightly into a rousing scene of near rape...