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...honor of Southern womanhood is represented by a couple of highborn hussies (Janice Rule and Victoria Shaw) who offer their fair white bodies to the herdsman hero (William Holden) like so much fatback on a plate. The manners of the Southern gentleman are exemplified by a courtly colonel (Richard Widmark) who, in an episode obviously intended to titillate amateur analysts, shoots off the hero's little finger...
After that, Holden wears one white glove, which flutters pointlessly throughout a performance that may well advance the date of his much-rumored retirement. Widmark typically does nothing to distract attention from his ineptitudes, among them a curious tendency to stumble over words of more than one syllable. He comes on, alas, with a Southern accent, and manages to sayound ez eeyuf heyuz tongue hayud tuhwurned intew a wawatermayelon. Fortunately, most of his scenes are stolen by his horse...
...Thursday, December 16 CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). John Ford's Two Rode Together (1961), in which Texas Marshal James Stewart and Army Lieutenant Richard Widmark try to rescue some white women (long held captive by the Comanches) who don't want to be disquawified...
Tuesday, November 23 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Tunnel of Love, with Doris Day and Richard Widmark. A young suburban couple pose as the epitome of respectability in their desperate attempt to adopt a baby...
Nonetheless, in Scenarist James Poe's gritty adaptation of the cold war thriller by Mark Rascovich, Bedford appears to be powered by superpatriotism. Captain Richard Widmark is a right-wing fanatic whose hot head simmers harmlessly ("It's a lot of work being a mean bastard") until his ship sights a Soviet sub prowling territorial waters off Greenland. The captain can scarcely restrain his thirst for the kill as he trails his prey, determined to force the snoopy sub to surface for air and identify itself. The clear thinking is done for the Good Guys by a former...