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...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Siege at Malta" recounts the heroic stand made by the citizens of the tiny Mediterranean island under incessant at tack by the German and Italian air forces during World...
...HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY. The full house includes Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and a couple of other aces in a mock-heroic poker comedy...
...might be thought that this heightened consciousness of man's fate would spur some new heroic attitude, and in a minimal way it has. For "Credo quia absurdum [I believe because it is absurd]" these playwrights substitute: I will endure, knowing it is absurd. This is a far cry from the vaulting heroes of past tragedy. The tragic hero must bear full responsibility for his acts, and that is what makes him a thing of the past. Modern intellectual man sees himself as the plaything of powers beyond his reach and shrugs along with Hamlet: "The time...
...George, the caustic, cynical master of revels, Burton is superb, shrewdly measuring out his powerhouse talent in a part written for a far less heroic actor. A muffled drum sounded against the din of crashing china, he joylessly endures pain and joylessly inflicts it with the hollow stare of a man so sick of life that he cannot even relish his final vindictive triumph...
...mock-heroic tension of the game has been soundly established when Director Cook brings on his ace. Henry Fonda, in a lip-twitching portrait of a loser, appears as a homesteader en route to a 40-acre chunk of Texas with his plucky little wife (Joanne Woodward) and his young son. Though he has sworn off cards, Fonda breaks into a cold sweat as soon as he sniffs the deck, possibly because he shuffles so poorly. The imminent loss of his life savings brings on a heart attack and, with a final $20,500 pot at stake, Joanne primly takes...