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PETE HARRIS
TEEVEE NOTES: The less said about "Nick And Nora" the better. A taped ABC-TV Wide World mystery inspired by the characters created by Dashiell Hammett for his 1934 novel, The Thin Man, this 90minute nobudget exercise in tedium generated no suspense, no air of mystery and none of the spirit of the Thin Man movies with William Powell and Myrna Loy. The sad thing is that it had two leads who, given the right script and director and an adequate budget, could have become reasonably good facsimiles of Nick and Nora Charles, Craig Stevens, however, merely seemed shaky instead of languidly debonair and Jo Ann Pflug, because of the script, vacillated between rich-bitch petulance and the affability that became a trademark of Myrna Loy’s unforgettable portrayals of Nora...I'LL DRINK TO THAT: Buffalo TV stations more and more seem to be rediscovering movies of the 1940s, This week, channel 4 ran, in primetime, The Westerner (1940) with Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan. Channel 2 is running Gentleman Jim (1941) with Errol Flynn as boxing champ James J. Corbett on Monday, March 17, at
3 p.m. Channel 7 has scheduled They Died With Their Boots On (1941) with Flynn as Custer on Saturday, March 22, at 10:30 p.m. and the same channel has Sergeant York (1941) with Gary Cooper on Monday, March 24, at 10:30.
. -« Dale Robertson gets a second workout as 1930s GMan Melvin Purvis in an ABC-TV telefeature called The Kansas City Massacre, based on the slaying of gangster Frank (Jelly) Nash and four lawmen outside Kansas City's Union Station on June 17, 1938. AsI've said before, Roberson is absolutely the wrong physical type to portray Purvis (just as Ben Johnson was wrong in the role in the 1973 feature, Dillinger, with Warren Oates) but that doesn't seem to bother the people who make such movies. Bo Hopkins appears as Pretty Boy Floyd... Another upcoming ABC-TV film, slated for April 14, is I Will Fight No More Forever, based on the ordeal of the Nez Perce tribe which, in 1877, chose to stage a 1,600mile running battle rather than give up their territory and go to a reservation. Ned Romero portrays Chief Joseph and James Whitmore is General Oliver O, Howard. The two-hour movie was filmed on location in Mexico, .. ABC also is producing a two-hour television movie and series pilot based on the characters introduced in the theatrical film Sounder. Newcomers Harold Sylvester and Ebony Wright will recreate the roles played in the original feature by Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson ---Irwin Allen has completed a TV movie loosely based on Swiss Family Robinson and featuring Martin Milner, Pat Delaney, Michael Wixted and Eric Olsen as the Robinsons, Cameron Mitchell as “a colorful rascal marooned on the island" and John Vernon as an "exiled British soldier of fortune"...
I CAN HARDLY WAIT: Anthony Franciosa is starring in a TV movie and series pilot called Matt Helm in which he'll be a private eye instead of a ' secret agent.
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