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...play, Esther (Betty Field) is married to Victor Franz (Michael Strong) who has been fending with his brother Walter (Sheppard Strudwick) for 28 years. Although the brothers' abilities and inclinations were similar, Victor became a policeman, Walter a successful surgeon. Both Victor and Walter seem unhappy and blame others for forcing them into their present situation. However, each is responsible for his own choice- a choice that had to be made and must be recognized. What Esther often says of herself is true of the two men, "I can never believe what I see before...
...confidence of a happily married policeman and the defensive anger of a middle-aged man who sees himself as a failure. As he slips from one phase to the other, he is complemented by Miss Field, who alternately admires her husband and pushes him to desire something more. Shepperd Strudwick, in this same manner, enters with the false confidence of an Academy Award nominee and leaves expressing the forceful anger of one who "should have won." Whenever he sees Walter at the point of losing his self-assurance. Strudwick looks at or rubs his hands- the surgeon's hands...
...Galileo, offered last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, is like a formal ballet of the mind in which the prince of science and the princes of the church dance out their accustomed roles. But for Western civilized man, Galileo's recantation before the Cardinal Inquisitor (Shepperd Strudwick) has the power and poignance of Socrates drinking hemlock...
Kennebunkport, Me., Kennebunkport Playhouse: Frank Lovejoy and Shepperd Strudwick in Gore Vidal's 1960 political pot-an-feu, The Best...
...item was Shakespeare's dependable Julius Caesar, done for the third time in six years by CBS's Studio One. Quite a lot was wrong with this production: Brutus (Philip Bourneuf) was too short, Cassius (Shepperd Strudwick) too wholesome, Mark Antony (Alfred Ryder) too boyish. Yet for all its imbalance, it was entertaining. Producer Alex March, faced with the insuperable job of cramming the 2½-hour play into the allotted 54 minutes, used a single set, concentrated on closeups, and apparently aimed at the style of the recitative. Speeches were delivered with ringing clarity, and Shakespeare...