Word: alec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alec Guinness in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Decks (NBC). Not long ago Guinness, perhaps best remembered, for his role as the dubious bank clerk in The Lavender Hill Mob, declared: "I have an absolutely unalterable rule-no more roles about a dubious bank clerk." For his TV debut, he played just such a clerk, who dubiously plots to avenge 22 years of thankless labor by humiliating the bank's brass. His scheme: instead of swiping the bank's funds, he adds his own money to them, creates total bookkeeping chaos, and rapidly advances toward the presidency when...
...tail end is somewhat mangled. Up to that point, though, the Roger MacDougall-Stanley Mann script is a fairly witty example of a rare film form: political burlesque. It keeps the show bouncing along despite a director (Jack Arnold) and a star (Peter Sellers, a sort of second-company Alec Guinness playing several roles) who have not mastered the light-fantastic style that suits and supports this sort of flimsy British whimsy...
Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Sir Alec Guinness makes his U.S. TV debut in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks, as a bank teller who embezzled cash, not by dipping into the till, but by depositing money in other people's accounts...
...Catch Stars. To get his star, Hub Robinson had flown to Scandinavia, tempted Actress Bergman with a reported $100,000, plus ownership of the show in Europe. While in Europe, Robinson also talked Alec Guinness into making his U.S. TV bow (scheduled Nov. 10) by captivating him with a comic short story about a Machiavellian bank clerk. For forthcoming Ford specials, Robinson has also hooked Jack Benny, George Burns, Marian Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Jimmy Stewart, Ethel Merman. Coos one Robinson recruit, Roz Russell (whose coldness to TV he thawed by offering her a thumping $100,000 for the first Ford...
Hardly had Nikita Khrushchev's bluster about Russia's strength died in Washington than a sobersided report showed that the Soviet economy lags much farther behind the U.S.'s than any Russian politico cares to admit. The report, written by top British Economist Alec Nove, 42, and published this week by the nongovernmental National Planning Association, puts forth new evidence that the U.S.S.R. has no chance to match the economic level of the U.S. in the foreseeable future. Economist Nove flatly rejects Khrushchev's boast that the Soviets have boosted their industrial output to more than...