Word: vidal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goodyear Television Playhouse presented the satire: young (29) Novelist Gore Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet. The small planet is the earth. The visit is made on an impulse by a cultivated space traveler named Kreton. He taxies his flying saucer from a distant galaxy somewhere in outer space right onto the rose-bed of an American family...
Suspense (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Faulkner's short story, Smoke, adapted by Gore Vidal...
When The Seven Deadly Sins first came to this country, some critics objected to Gluttony as mere filth. True, the story is only the retelling of a bawdy tale, but it is done so skilfully as to be delightful. Henri Vidal is riotously pompous as the traveling salesman who passes up a chance to sleep with a beautiful farmer's wife for a piece of cheesecake...
...loose on the martyrs, does this film develop any real excitement. Up to then, it dawdles turgidly over a tame counterfeit of Roman debauchery, an involved political-religious intrigue and a routine love story that pairs a patrician's daughter (Michele Morgan) with a crypto-Christian gladiator (Henri Vidal...
Simon is a master at mugging, but his untimely death removes him from the scene less than halfway through. The main burden then falls on the young and robust shoulders of Henri Vidal. That is where it stays, however, for Vidal's dramatic talents are about limited to exhibiting his superb physique and cat-like agility...