Word: welched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anatomy of a Murder. Joseph M. Welch, the famous lawyer best known for his speech directed at Sen. Joe McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings ("Have you no sense of decency. Have you, at long last, no sense of decency..."), plays the judge in Otto Preminger's puzzling courtroom story with Jimmy Stewart as the country lawyer, Arthur O'Connel as the drunken partner Stewart arouses, George C. Scott as savage prosecutor, Duke Ellington score and piano...
...Jill St. John is booked for the Soviet Union. Raquel Welch is earmarked for China." Pakistan? It was down for Tallulah Bankhead (who died...
Last of Sheila. Slick but interesting. A murder mystery on a yacht. Don't even try to figure out the plot, which is convoluted almost beyond the limits of credibility. Most of the fun comes from watching James Coburn, Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Mason, and Raquel Welch play themselves, with plenty of witty Hollywood quips and elaborate sets. Paris. 1:45-9:45, every 2 hours...
When Raquel Welch, 33, slipped and fell on the Madrid set of The Three Musketeers, grimacing from the pain, was it because she was smarting from Producer Ilya Salkind's remark, "Raquel is very big in all the small countries"? Or was she simply making sure of getting attention in an all-star cast that includes Charlton Heston, Oliver Reed, Faye Dunaway, Geraldine Chaplin and Michael York? Filming was halted briefly to determine that Raquel, who plays the heroine, had only sprained her arm. No strategic areas were damaged...
...Point of Order. The classic American documentary by Emile de Antonio. Joseph McCarthy turns in a very convincing performance as an alcoholic, red-baiting Senator who has succeeded in terrorizing the entire country. Joseph N. Welch is not quite as good as Spencer Tracy would have been in the role of the New England lawyer who puts an end to the foolishness ("Senator, at long last, have you no shame?"), but Tracy reportedly wanted too much money for the part. Cameo performanced by Robert F. Kennedy, Roy Cohn, and G. David Schine (who grew up to be executive producer...