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...with a Million (Rank; United Artists) is borrowed from a Mark Twain short story that dealt entertainingly with the fabled eccentricity of the British and the equally well-known resourcefulness of Americans. The film is an Anglo-American enterprise, directed by Ronald (The Promoter} Neame, written by Jill Craigie (wife of M.P. Michael Foot), and starring Hollywood's veteran Gregory Peck...
...Night of the Hunter has some of the tension of Marie Belloc Lowndes' famed story of a psychopathic killer, The Lodger, plus a sequence of runaway river life that recalls the Injun Joe passages of Mark Twain. Davis Grubb, 34, was himself born in Moundsville, W. Va., and named after a grandfather who captained a steamboat on the Ohio. Next for Author Grubb's story: a film version by Producer Paul Gregory (Don Juan in Hell, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), with Charles Laughton directing...
...partakes of all that is finest in American literature--the sense of nature and of revelation of Emerson and Thoreau, the sharp and pessimistic but compassionate wit of Twain, Lardner, and Marquis, the enthusiasm of Whitman, the highly developed awareness of fantasy and symbolism of Melville, James, and Faulkner, the sense of social forces of Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, and Steinbeck, and the linguistic facility of Thurber and Perelman. Add to this the satiric ability of George Orwell...
Hall of Fame (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). A tribute to Mark Twain, with Lionel Barrymore, Macdonald Carey...
...pouts Actress Moore, an ingenue who seems continually worried by the complexity of her lines. "I mind, but I hope for the best. The world's still young," replies Actor Power, managing to look a little like Nehru and John Barrymore at the same time. Yes, the twain meet...