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...audiences might have arrived expecting a million laughs from the most celebrated buffoon ever to rise through U.S. television, they leave with a single, if surprised, reaction: inside the master jester, there is a masterful actor. Gleason, the storied comedian, egotist, golfer, and gourmand, mystic, hypnotist, boozer and bull slinger, is now emerging as a first-rank star of motion pictures...
...muddy section of Yale's Old Campus, the CRIME eleven defeated its Ell counterpart, 22 to 6, before a crowd of 30 NEWS substitutes and three members of the Yale Security Force. Mike ("The Slinger") Belknap led the CRIMSON in completing two touchdown passes and setting up another touchdown by having his weekend date recover a fumble on the NEWS' three-yard line...
...Joseph (Outcasts of Poker Flat) Newman obviously inspired his actors. Arthur O'Connell, as a coony old sergeant, gives the finest performance of his screen career. Actor Boone, in trying to evoke the warrior imago, at times seems less a man than a manner-like Paladin, the sixgun-slinger he plays on TV's Have Gun, Will Travel, he shoots every word from the lip. But at the same time, Boone sets up a strong magnetic pole that centers the whole story, and he reveals beneath the captain's military brusqueness a capacity to suffer, an intensity...
...March 11 Our American Heritage (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). In "The Secret Rebel," TV Gun-slinger Hugh O'Brian portrays John Honeyman, a Revolutionary War double agent who poses as a British...
...veteran of dozens of local shows. He brings his own excellences to the outrageous personage with the slashing wit and excoriating tongue; saying and doing such things as the rest of us dare only do in our minds, he cantankers his way through the role like a bull-slinger in a Canton shop. And he tosses in lots of amusing bits of business--with fudge, with long-holdered cigarettes, even with his own creaking joints...