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...willful men, the sensitivity to dialogue and detail that distinctively marked his treatment of strained human relationships, disappeared in glamorous eyewash: society seemed to be pilloried only for profit. What emerged unscathed from Jones' commercialization were his least savory qualities. It soon became apparent that Jones had written Warden into From Here to Eternity not so much as an indication that even a tough Top Sergeant could get screwed if he attempted to run his platoon humanely, but rather as a corrective to the weaknesses of noble, yet love-lorn and defeated, Prewitt, Realist Warden was always in a commanding...
...terrible time." The opener was Miller's play A Memory of Two Mondays. It is a plotless, proletarian slice-of-life drama, but Jacqueline Babbin's production was a model of intelligent TV adaptation, and Paul Bogart directed a first-rate cast headed by Estelle Parsons, Jack Warden, and George Grizzard...
...always had all the right conclusions, but the premises on which he should have based them were not there. "Once, Drinnon said to Douglas that it would be logical for the Lewisburg warden to plant someone like himself as an informer. "That's fantastic," Douglas replied. "You know you can trust...
...callow actor, the picture's youngster is Kirk Douglas, 54, playing with an outrageous auburn hair rinse and grinning like a Steinway with 88 white keys. He and the rest of the over-the-hill gang try to bust out of a federal pen presided over by Warden Henry Fonda, a lame graybeard with advanced ideas about penology. These notions are the only flickers of intelligence in the film...
JAMES EARL RAY. Officially, he is just another state prisoner in cellblock C at Brushy Mountain Penitentiary n Petros, Tenn. But Warden Lewis Tollett keeps a special eye on the man who is serving 99 years for the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and vows that he will never escape. Indeed, Ray, 42, would need a miracle to bust out of Tennessee's only maximum-security prison, a stark structure of white stone in the rugged Cumberland Mountains, where inmates used to dig coal round the clock for 25? a ton. Things are far better...