Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuesday, September 14 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Bridges at Toko-Ri, with William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March and Mickey Rooney. Color...
...DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A spoof of burlesque with Guests Lee Remick, Jim Nabors and Mickey Rooney, plus cameo appearances by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Color...
COMBAT (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Mickey Rooney plays a loudmouth know-it-all G.I. forced to live up to his bragging when he is trapped behind German lines...
...this time, and that means plenty is going to happen, none of it original. The characters, except for a regulation Blimp (Stewart Granger), are stir-type stereotypes: a bomb-tossing boyo (Mickey Rooney) from the I.R.A., a Little Caesar (Raf Vallone) with eyes that smoke like gun barrels, a twitchy-faced psychopath (Henry Silva) so hipped on homicide that he murders babies when he runs out of adults. What's more, the plot is a weary old war horse: the villainous heroes, who fight at the start to save their own skins, fight to the finish to save...
Mickey presents Mickey Rooney as an Omaha salesman who inherits a marina in Southern California, and with it a crooked Chinese manager who has a lifetime contract. The situation is un promising and the dialogue ("Only registered guests are permitted to drown in the pool") needs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but inside Mickey Rooney there is a profound sense of the absurd; and last week in moments of wordless action - resisting seduction by Guest Star Dina Merrill or running through downtown streets wearing only a mink coat - he developed humor in the tradition of comic pathos...