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HENRY FONDA SPECIAL — Dick Van Dyke, Cara Williams (right) and Card Lynley are among
the participants in “Hen'-y Fonda and the Family,” hour-long comedy special which takes an affec
tionately satiric look at the American family, Tuesd .y at 8 on KTVF, Channel 11,
THE LAST VOYAGE' FILLED WITH DRAMA
“The Last Voyage,” a motion
picture which has received a
barrage of publicity and com
ment even before its release by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, due to
of its filming, unfolds a sus
the extraordinary circumstances
pense-filled story of the sink
ing of an ocean liner and the
dramatic rescue of its 1,500 pas
sengers. It opens Sunc^iy at the
Lacey Street Theater.
An Andrew and Virginia Stone
Production, in wide screen and col
or, starring Robert Stack, Dorothy
Malone, George Sanders, Edmond
O’Brien and six-year-old Tammy
Marihugh, the film is unique in the
annals of motion picture making.
In order to give his story unques
tionable realism. writer-director
Andrew Stone leased one of the
world’s most famous ocean liners at
a stage in which it was ready for
retirement and then proceeded to
sink it!
The unusual picture was filmed
in the Japan Sea with practically its
entire action photographed either on
or alongside the 44.000-ton vessel.
The result is one of the most au
thentic and powerful depictations of
a sea disaster ever brought to the
screen.
The drama of the sinking, itself—
the explosions and fires, the panic
among the passengers, the heroism
attendant to last-minute rescues—
makes “The Last Voyage” an en
HEAD CAST — Robert Stack and
Dorothy Malone head the east cf
Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer’s “The
Last Voyage,” suspenseful drama
of the rescue of 1,500 passengers
from a sinking ocean !<ner. The
Andrew and Virginia Stone Pro
duction was filmed in color off
the coast of Japan aboard an ac
tual liner.
grossing film. But it is by focusing
his drama on the plight of a young
husband, whose wife and child are
trapped in the wreckage, that Stone
has given his narrative heartbreak
ing impact.
Husband Role
Robert Stack plays the husband
whose wife (Dorothy Malone) and
young daughter (Tammy Marihught
are trapped in their stateroom after
the ship's boiler blows up. ripping a
gaping hole through all the decks.
The child is rescued but the wife
is pinned down by an immovable
strip of metal.
The attempts of the desperate
husband to secure aid in saving her
as the ship slowly begins to sink,
after the engine room is set afire
and the forward stack crashes into
the wheelhouse, give the story har
rowing moments.
George Sanders portrays the cap
tain, whose delay in ordering his
passengers into the lifeboats brings
about a personal tragedy.
Edmond O'Brien is seen as the
second engineer, who comes close to
rebelling against orders which go
against his better judgment, with
another outstanding role played by
Woody Strode as a young seaman
who reveals his heroism in aiding
Stack to save Miss Malone.
mb Coutures Humor
mush Broadway Comei
Capturing the warm-hearted humor and worldly wisdom
of the Broadway play, the Mervyn LeRoy Production of “A Ma
jority Of One," starring Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness,
opens Friday at the New Empress Tneater. The Warner Bros.
Technicolor presentation co-stars Ray Danton and Madlyn Rhue
in mo comedy wmcn recounts me
romantic entanglement of a re
sourceful Brooklyn widow and a
Japanese industrial tycoon.
“A Majority of One" is the first
film Miss Russell has made in three
years—since scoring in the screen
version of “Auntie Marne." "1 fig
ure that in the past I've made
enough movies for financial and
contract reasons. Now the script has
to be different—and something spe
cial—before I'll agree to do it" says
the actress.
Guinness Returns to Screen
For Guinnes, who won an Acade
my Award for his performance in
“The Bridge on the River Kwai,”
the film was the occasion of his
second visit to Hollywood—his first
RUSSELL RETURNS — In her
first screen rose since her mad
cap antics as “Auntie Mame’’ Ros
alind Russell siars opposite Alec
Guinness in the Mervyn Leitoy
Production of “A Majority of
One,’’ opening Friday at the New
Empress Theater.
having been made six years ago.
Sir Alec, knighted by the Queen of
England for his distinguished con
tributions to the stage and screen,
is ranked as one of the screen's
finest and most versatile performers.
The LeRoy production is based on
one of the stage's most popular
comedy hits of modern times. The
Leonard Spigelgass play has been
running for three years in the
United States and has also enjoyed
phenomenal success in England,
Sweden. Greece. Holland and South
Africa. To insure that the basic
elements of the show’s popularity
would be preserved in the film, the
producer-director retained the
play’s author to write the screen
play.
In addition to Spigelgass, two of
the players featured in the original
Broadway production are recreating
their roles on the screen—Mae Ques
tel and Marc Marno.
LeRoy Holds Record
Seventeen of LeRoy’s films have
previously played the world-famous
Radio City Music Hall in New York
— a record unchallenged by any
other producer or director. “A Ma
jority of One” is his 18th presenta
tion at the nation's No. 1 showplace
—joining a distinguished roster that
has included “The Wizard of Oz,”
"Madame Curie,” “Random Har
vest,” “Mister Roberts” and “The
FBI Story.’
‘'A Majority of On; ' is a glowing
account of a widowed Brooklyn
matron who suddenly finds herself
en route to .7a- an accompanying her
daughter and her diplomat son-in
law. who has been assigned to ne
gotiate an important trade agree
ment.
Despite her prejudices against the
Japanese, due to the loss of her
only son in the Pacafic theater dur
ing World War II. she falls into a
pleasant friendship with a Tokyo
industrialist aboard ship. When her
daughter forces her to break off her
relationship, the industrialist
avenges himself by breaking up the
trade negotiations.
Second Episode
Of ’Policemen Die
Alone’ Is Slated
Lt. PJce Ad" .-,3 experiences bit
ter disappointment trying to link
the slaying of a fellow officer by
an underworld hired killer to a
known crime syndicate boss in the
concluding episode of •‘Policemen
Die Alone.' a two-part drama on
"The New Breed." Saturday at 8 on
KFAR-TV. Channel 2.
Against orders, gunman “Deacon"
Lee pursues his original quarry—
Benny Kohler He mistakenly kills
an engineer with the same name. Lt.
Adams charges syndicate head
Frank Luchek with the crime and
faces a false arrest charge when
positive identification clears Lu
chek of complicity.
Prospects for apprehending the
slayer are bleak until the only wit
ness to the detective’s murder. Ray
Wick, leaves his hideout just as the
lieutenant is about to be suspended.
Lee Cobb Stars
In Weslin "house
TV Spectaeular
Lee J. Cobb will star as Judge
Barnett S. Bollinger in Robert L.
Joseph’s original drama. “Footnote
to Fame," the “Westinghouse Pre
sents” special Saturday at 9:30 on
KTVF, Channel Eleven.
In the story. Judge Bollinger, an
aging state Supreme Court justice,
defends himself against charges of
manipulating a fund during im
peachment proceedings before a
state legislature.
Lee J. Cobb was acclaimed on
Broadway for his unforgettable per
formance in “Death of a Salesman,
and elsewhere for his many por
trayals in motion pictures and on
television. Among his television ap
pearances, the actor is especially
remembered as the scientist in
“Project Immortality" on “Play
house 90" and for his dual role in
“I’ Don Quixote' on the Du Pont
“Show of the Month.”