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...Angry Silence (Beaver Films; Valiant) at first glance looks like a remake, minus humor, of I'm All Right, Jack, and at second glance like an anti-union tirade. Actually, it is a vigorous attempt to fight the virus of conformity in modern society-an industrial miracle play in which Everyman finds salvation through a grease-smeared redeemer...
...Temouchent, a market town near Oran, where 9,000 Moslems and 8,000 angry Europeans jammed the main square. Some Moslems, on order of their employers, held up banners reading "Algeria null but it was the Europeans who did most of the shouting. A valiant half-dozen Moslems suddenly raised a sign inscribed "Vive De Gaulle!" It was torn from their hands three times while the police looked...
Music for a Winter Night (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "The Sounds of Christmas," the first of three holiday specials (with Mindy Carson and Florence Henderson), temporarily replaces Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years...
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Opening as the new Prime Minister utters his first statement to Commons-"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"-the third episode portrays the retreat through Western Europe and the Dunkirk evacuation...
...more, after the message had gone out to His Majesty's fleet, "Winston is back." What really put the ABC series in flight were the words behind the pictures, the prose of Churchill spoken in the Elizabethan voice of Actor Richard Burton, an apt combination that gives The Valiant Years the ring of a historical drama, whether describing prewar England as a "fat, valuable cow tied up to attract the beast of prey" or Hitler as a "bloodthirsty guttersnipe" who would be "sponged and purged and blasted from the surface of the earth...