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NEW BitEED STARS — Leslie Nielsen, John Beradino, John Clarke and Greg Roman share the spot
light with Los Angeles as stars of ABC-TVs series “The New Breed”. Based on the Metropolitan squad of
the Los Angeles Police Department, “The New Breed” is seen Saturdays at 8 on KFAR-TV, Channel 2.
MYSTERY BASED ON CHRISTIE THRILLER
There isn’t a mystery fan in
the world who hasn’t thrilled to
the novels of Agatha Christie.
Now, one of this renowned writ
er’s most popular characters.
Miss Marple, is brought to the
screen for the first time in
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Mur
der, She Said.” based on Miss
Christie’s thriller, “4:50 From
Paddington.”
The movie opens today at the
New Empress Theater, along with
a companion feature, “The Horizon
tal Lieutenant.”
Filmed on location in the English
countryside, the picture stars Mar
garet Rutherford, one of the stage
and screen’s top comedy character
actresses, as the lovable and ec
centric old lady, Miss Marple.
Cast as Dr. Quimper is four-time
Academy Award nominee Arthur
Kennedy, with James Robertson
Justice portraying the head of the
Ackenthorpe family who become in
volved in a baffling murder mys
tery. Others in leading roles in
clude Muriel Pavlow, Thorley Wal
ters and Charles Tingwell.
Suspense Begins
The suspense begins when Miss
Marple, returning by train from
London to her country cottage, is
lorrified to see a man strangle a
woman when another train passes
in an adjacent track.
CONSOLATION — Arthur Ken
nedy consoles a distraught Muriel
Pavlow in a scene from “Mur
der She Said”.
Police, finding no trace of a body,
believe her to be the victim of
hallucinations, but Miss Marple
knows what she has seen and de
duces that the body could have “dis
appeared” if it had been thrown
from the train and hidden on the
grounds of the Ackenthorpe estate
bordering part of the railroad track.
Disguised as a railway worker, she
discovers sufficient clues to convince
her she is right.
Poses as Maid
Gaining admittance to the Acken
thorpe house by posing as a maid,
she becomes acquainted with the
family and Dr. Quimper. When she
finds the body of the murdered
woman, the police agree to use Miss
Marple as their agent in the house.
But only after two other members
of the family are murdered and Miss
Marple herself narrowly escapes a
similar fate is she able to present
the police with the solution of the
Ackenthorpe affair
“Murder, She Said” was produced
by George Brown and directed by
George Pollock. The screen play is
by David Pursall and Jack Seddon.
I
Hutton And Prentiss Team
To Present Comedy Farce
The happy makers of “Where the Boys Are,” one of Holly
wood's biggest hits, are back with a new Metro-Goldwyn-Maver
comedy—“The Horizontal Lieutenant.”
The film opens today at the New Empress Theater, along
with a companion feature, “Murder, She Said.”
Produced by Joe Pasternak, written by George Weils, filmed
in Cinema-Scope and color and starring Jim Hutton and Paula
Prentiss, plus TV and nightclub .....
comic Jack Carter in his film de
but, “The Horizontal Lieutenant" is
in the gay tradition of such service
comedy winners as “Teahouse of the
August Moon" and “Don't Go Near
the Water.’’
Also involved in the new laugh of
fering are Jim Backus, Charles Mc
Graw and petite Japanese star Mi
yoshi Umeki, who recently scored
in “Flower Drum Song.” Add “Her
mione,” a chicken adept at hunt
and-peck typing, and you have as
zany a set of characters as ever
graced a movie comedy.
Honolulu Scene
The story starts off in Honolulu
in 1944, when the most severe action
of the U.S. Army is seen by the in
tra-service baseball team and the
hottest combat is competition for
Femalus Americanus, as represented
by the nurses’ corps and in particu
lar by Lt. Molly Blue (Paula Pren
tiss).
One of her fervent admirers is Lt.
Merle Wye (Jim Hutton), an intel
ligence officer who receives his pur
ple heart for injuries sustained on
the field of action when he is hit
by a foul ball.
Of no further use to the team.
Merle is assigned to the remote is
land of Rotohan, where he is to
capture a mysterious Japanese nick
named “Bottletop.” who is still at
large on the island already held
for seven months.
There has never been as hilarious
a “man hunt” as that of this bewil
dered and beset lieutenant's pursuit
of the wily "BoUletop," whose pen
chant for G.I. soda pop compromis
es the High Command. In the course
of his stratagems. Merle is aided
or hindered, as the case may be. by
Molly, who has followed him to the
island; a romance-happy fellow
lieutenant (Jack Carter); a Navy
Commander whoso saltiest charac
teristic is his language (Jim Back
us); an explosive tempered Colonel
(Charles McGraw* and a native in
Newhart Brings
Commercials To
Motion Pictures
Veteran actor Charles Bronson
joins Bob Newhart in a dramatiza
tion of how commercials could be
integrated in motion pictures in
NBC-TV’s ‘‘The Bob Newhart
Show,” Thursday at 7 on KFAR-TV,
Channel 2.
In their thumbnail version of a
motion picture, Newhart portrays
a federal investigator who questions
killer Bronson. They are supported
in the sketch by Jackie Joseph,
Joyce Rees and Andy Albin.
In his monodrama of the evening,
Newhart. conducts a school for mov
ing men.
Musical guest Anita Gordon, for
merly featured on Ernie Ford's
television show, will sing “It Might
as Well Ee Spring.” from the mo
tion picture, “State Fair.”
NONE MISSING — Paula Pren
tiss decides there are no teeth
missing in this Army hospital
scene with Jim Hutton in Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer's comedy, "The
Horizontal Lieutenant.” I he pic
ture marks the fourth appearance
together of tile popular Hutton
Prcntiss team and also stars Jack
Carter in his movie debut. It is
in CinemaScope and color.
terpreter called Tada (Yos a
Yoda).
The latter's sweetheart (Miyo.-ri
Umckii comes close to fouling i )
the clean-up operation but redeems
herself in the picture's climacl c
prison compound show-within-a
show when, along with juggle. .
tumblers and tight-wire artists, sh ;
sings and swings to "How About
You.”
Does Merle get his man? He cer
tainly does, and his woman, too,
even though he has to become a
’’horizontal lieutenant" to do it.
Based on Gordon Cotier’s novel.
“The Bottletop Affair.” the Euterpe
Production was directed by Richard
Thorpe—with tongue in cheek.
Skills Of Casey
And Zorba Taxed
A starchy supervising nurse and
an embittered career woman, under
going the psychological problems
of middle age, test the skills of Dr.
Casey and Dr. Zorba in "And Eve
Wore a Veil of Tears” on “Boa
Casey,” Wednesday at 9:30 on
KFAR-TV, Channel 2.
Casey first notices the change in
Nurse Olsen when she slaps a pa
tient. Mrs. Porter c^nplains olJ
imaginary ailments and cuts her
self off from her husband and
friends.
Andy Devine Star
On Twilight Zone
Andy Devine stars as the operator
of a small-town general store who ®
chief stock in trade is the tall tai
—and whose life changes beyond
anything his fertile imagination
could manufacture — in "Hocus
Pocus and Frisby” on Rod Serling's
“The Twilight Zone,” Friday at 9:30
on KTVF, Channel Eleven.