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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Transfer of Treason. For mature Russians the message delivered in this oblique way could not but be momentous: according to the Stalin version of history, Marshal Tukhachevsky had headed a plot, inspired by the exiled Trotsky, to take...
Edward Chamberlain, the "victimized" Mountie, probably saw Bert Lahr in the movie version of Rose Marie. His Irish accent isn't specially consistent, but he has all the sweeping charm and confidence of the Northwest hero. Janice Thresher, as his ever-dithering wife, does well to play her role completely valiantly, because it is important that she never lapse into obvious contempt for what she is trying to spoof. Joe Hudak's leers, in characterizing the villain, have an ambiguity which cleverly both underscore the mock melodrama and cynically comment on it. His violence and forcefulness have a very convincing...
...some of his California campaign chiefs, he canceled his planned vacation in the South and flew west to head off Estes Kefauver. By the time he landed in Los Angeles, just 18 hours after Kefauver had finished a six-day swing down the state, Adlai was talking his version of Estes' language. "I'm an underdog," he said, "who has come back to his native city to do some barking...
...taking considerable dramatic license with the facts (e.g., the Red charge d'affaires, played by Gregory Morton, is shown as a captive, but actually escaped), the play had far more realism and bite than the usual run of TV's anti-Communist dramas. Climax! failed with its version of Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 novel. Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a story of love and loss in World War I. Dorothy McGuire, looking at moments remarkably like Grace Kelly, flung herself into the role of the lovelorn girl with more abandon than heartbreak, and John Forsythe...
Tender Trap (Pablo Beltran orchestra; Victor). A high-swinging version of a low-swinging tune, recorded, of all places, in Mexico. The band sounds something like the old Lunceford band, with its happy-go-lucky saxes, its smooth trombones and its nice beat, but adds its own modern flavor...