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Warner Bros. Presents
The Hollywood studios may know how to turn out movies for theaters, but Warner Brothers, for one, still has much to learn about producing movies for TV. ABC’s hour-long Warner Bros. Presents is no better than most of the half-hour telefilm dramas turned out regularly in Hollywood. It is well-produced and competently acted, but the producers seem to have forgotten that the play’s still the thing.
The program consists of three series, run on an every-third-week schedule. These are based on—and bear the titles of—past Warner hits: “Kings Row,” “Cheyenne” and “Casablanca.”
The “Kings Row” regulars—Jack Kelly, Nan Leslie, Robert Horton and Victor Jory—are good in soap opera
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ish stories about a young psychiatrist struggling against the superstitions and tradition-bound medical practices of a small town in the early 1900's. Clint Walker, as “Cheyenne,” and L. Q. Jones, as his sidekick, get into standard scrapes with bad guys, Indians and cattle rustlers in a rather immature Western. Charles McGraw, as an American adventurer in “Casablanca,” seldom has a chance against heavily written scripts.
Each film reflects a lavish budget and technical skill. The same cannot be said for the quality of scripts.
Actor Gig Young, a personable host, serves as guide on the studio tours that wind up each week’s show. Some behind-the-scenes techniques are engrossing. But Young’s interviews with Warner stars would be more interesting if they weren’t such blatant commercials for new movies.