The Catered Affair "Mystery"

The Catered Affair "Mystery"Aggie Hurley (Bette Davis) is making up for a lifetime of making do. Her daughter Jane (Debbie Reynolds) is going to have a lavish wedding even if Jane wants a simple ceremony. And even if Aggie's husband Tom (Ernest Borgnine) must give up his dream of owning his own taxi to finance the extravaganza. Borgnine, winner of 1955's Best Actor Oscar for Marty (like The Catered Affair originally written for TV by Paddy Chayefsky), etches another superb

who slipped through a crack in the bureaucratic system and onto the streets

When he finally manages to dig his way to the surface he discovers that everyone has died of radiation poisoning

" named after his late wife who died in an unsolved hit-and-run accident a year ago that day

Geoffrey and Maria

lives a life as constrained as his clerical collar

while Beth Howland and Polly Holliday play her co-workers

" cheered Bosley Crowther in The New York Times

Directed by Emmy Award winner Marina Zenovich

Gershwin music

the efforts of Gordon and his cohorts (Chico

And with John Travolta in the title role

the Oklahoma Kid (Cagney) is the territory's most hunted outlaw