Word: widmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pickup on South Street (20th Century-Fox) is a 90-minute muscle-flexing exercise in violence. A pickpocket (Richard Widmark) slaps a former roadhouse entertainer (Jean Peters) in the teeth, knocks her out with a right to the jaw, and revives her by pouring a bottle of beer in her face. The B-girl retaliates by conking him over the head with another beer bottle. A Communist spy (Richard Kiley) beats up and shoots the girl, hits a cop over the head with a pistol, and kills an eccentric old necktie peddler (Thelma Ritter). The pickpocket knocks...
...used themes from Verdi operas as bridges between the action. As Othello, Elliott effectively portrayed the Moor's high-minded simplicity. Cathy played Desdemona as smoothly and efficiently as she plays her comedy roles in My Friend Irma. The real star of the first show was Richard Widmark as the villainous lago, full of silky menace and tortured hate. Lewis admits that his own "hammy ambition" is the chief reason for the attempt on Shakespeare, but he is quick to add: "I also think Othello is one of the finest suspense stories ever told...
Suspense (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Richard Widmark in Part Two of Othello...
Suspense (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). First of a two-part version of Othello, with Richard Widmark, Cathy & Elliot Lewis...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Richard Widmark in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four...