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...Scheduled for this week (Wednesday, Dec. 21), The Coming of Christ is the latest in NBC's superb Project Twenty series, uses the same technique of still photographs and quiet narration that made television masterpieces of 1959's Meet Mr. Lincoln and last April's Mark Twain's America...
Stories of Mark Twain (Walter Brennan, Brandon de Wilde; Caedmon). Richly furrowed and pecan-sweet, Actor Brennan's voice is perfectly flavored for Twain's famed saga of a betting man, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Ex-Child Actor de Wilde, 18, does equally well by a boy's excitement, awe and terror at the shooting of Boggs as seen and told by Huck Finn...
Adapted from a bestselling novel and Broadway play, Suzie Wong rewinds that limp old yarn about the poor starving artist and the floozy with a heart of gold, but this time the yarn has a new kink in it: miscegenation. The twain meet in Hong Kong, and pretty soon the hero (William Holden) is so crazy about the whoroine (Nancy Kwan) that he cannot tell the difference between good and bawd, white and Wong. Race prejudice and convention pothole the road to romance, but the lovers ride out the bumps...
...exactly a pajama game. As Mark Twain and Rodgers & Hart had done with Connecticut Yankee, one method would have been to mock the legend with pure comedy. Others have played it straight an impressive list that includes Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace. Layamon, Chretien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and now Alan Jay Lerner. In Camelot, he necessarily left out some of the legend's great characters: Sir Kay the Seneschal, Tristram and Isolde, Elaine the lily-maid of Astolat, even Sir Galahad, the squarest knight at the Round Table...
Bissell, in High Water and A Stretch on the River, has libeled the Mississippi more amusingly than anyone since Mark Twain, and Blue Rock, Iowa, the scene of his latest foolishness, is a river town. His hero is a happy bachelor named Frank Blanchard, who, though college-educated, wouldn't take New York if you renamed Sixth Avenue for him. And for good reason: he lives on a houseboat, makes a dandy income manufacturing Sno-Fuzz machines (Sno-Fuzz is a kiddy confection), and practices a kind of Greco-Roman wrestling with any number of ladies. In fallow periods...