'VANISHED,' PART ONE, SETS A BRISK PACE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300250007-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 9, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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BY l;Eit.Nl?.?s ITARILISON
Star daft' Wrier
fart One of Pletcher Hne-
bel's "Vanished" vas intrigu-
ing enough last night to make
at least one viewer abnostfor-
get that other show on closed
circuit TV. (Forgetting Carlon
Brando's Mutiny was easy.)
Knebal's best selling novel,
if you m isse(l it a few years
back, was about the disap-
pearance of a close friend of
the president and was well
stocked with 1 'iashington at-
mosphere and characters, and
the NBC-4 made-for TV movie
is making the iiiost of both.
Part One got its up to the
point when the President's
press secretary, played by
James Farentino, is wonder-
ing Whether his boss has
cracked up. Of course, there
was much to snicker at from a
Washington perspective; for
openers, the fact that the
press secretary's roommate
was an I T41 agent (Robert
Hooks-)
But sonic of the White Pouse
scenes worked very well and
the piquent casting was a big
help.
Robert Young, as a wily
senator, Western slab horn
style, Richard Widmark as the
president, and Eleanor Parker
as the distraught wife, were
excellent. ` Others, like Bill
Shatner as a noisy reporter,
were less fortunate in their
{ roles.
Ironically, one of the miss-
ing scientists in tha show has
a, name that sounds a little
like Kissinger.
Nothing helps more, howev-
er, in the telling of a niulti-
character melodrama than a
brisk pace. You can forget a
lot of questions, like .rhy the
press secretary didn't follow
tip his phone call to the miss-
ing man's wife, just trying to
keep up with what's going bn.
Part two tonight.
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