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Suspense (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Richard Widmark in The Card Game...
...ground and hold it! Tho' you face eternity . . .). The raw recruits who are to be turned into soldiers include such familiar characters as the bragging Texan, the brash college boy, the sensitive Negro and the weakling. Happily, the picture spares moviegoers another movie version of the Brooklynite. Richard Widmark barks his way through the role of the tough sergeant, and a curious attempt is made to give him an extra dimension by having him quote from Edna St. Vincent Millay. Karl Maiden, as his easygoing sidekick, tries to soften Widmark's third-degree tactics in close-order drill...
...weekends Widmark switches from glowering at recruits to glowering at pretty Elaine Stewart, a crazy, mixed-up kid who cannot stay away from soldiers, apparently because her soldier-husband was killed in Korea. Despite all its predictable moments-Widmark has a fight with another noncom, is nearly shot by one of his resentful recruits, makes a man of the weakling, falls in love with the girl but stays true to the Army-High Ground manages to generate a clumsy, convincing power. But not many ex-soldiers are likely to concede that 16 weeks of basic training -even under such...
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...