Mr. Charles Laughton. Now on home video for the first time, an ultra-rare kinescope of a Christmas special originally telecast by NBC in 1951 in which Laughton presented a shortened version of the much-admired program of prose and poetry readings that he performed throughout America during the Forties and Fifties. Not only is it hugely entertaining, but it’s touching–almost hurtfully so–to see what network TV executives once thought suitable for mass consumption (TT).
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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