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...after a bitter, seven-year battle in court, in the press and in many minds, keep agitating American imaginations. Composer Marc Blitzstein is writing an opera about them, and an off-Broadway producer is planning a musical. This week NBC presents the second installment of its two-part Sacco-Vanzetti Story, billed as a "dramatic interpretation of the much-disputed case." Taken together, the two taped installments provide two absorbing hours, somewhat marred by overly insistent pleading...
...robbery and murder, how the case against them grew from the teetering memory of witnesses, and how-standing in a cagelike dock and facing a flower-decked bench-they heard the verdict. This week's Part II deals with the long, futile fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the chair-the hunt for new evidence, the repeated appeals, the worldwide furor, and the final confrontation of the accused and their judge as he imposes sentence after Vanzetti's powerful speech: "I am so convinced to be right that if you can kill me two times, I would...
What saves the play from such flaws is the peculiar power of Sacco and Vanzetti themselves, as it emerges from the broken but hauntingly eloquent English of their speeches, letters and diaries. In superb performances. Actors Martin Balsam (Sacco) and Steven Hill (Vanzetti) capture a strange mixture of gentleness and violence, a quality of patience and bewilderment in an alien, hostile world. One of the truly moving scenes seen on TV shows the two men in death cells, writing their last letters. There are Sacco's farewell words to his son: "And you will also not forget to love...
...Sacco-Vanzetti Story (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The second half of Reginald Rose's two-part play about the famed case concludes with the 1927 execution of the two anarchists...
...Sacco-Vanzetti Story (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Presented on this and the following Friday, Reginald Rose's two-part play about Sacco and Vanzetti (Martin Balsam and Steven Hill) begins with the 1920 murder of a South Braintree, Mass, paymaster and payroll guard, traces the arrests and courtroom scenes that were played out before the attention of the world, as many felt that the immigrant defendants were more on trial for their anarchistic beliefs than for murder...