LIZ AS ‘POKER ALICE’: LOOKING GOOD
“Poker Alice,” airing at 9 tonight on CBS (Channels 2 and 8), is an Elizabeth Taylor-tailored Western, a light-hearted story about a card-slicking woman who wins a brothel in a poker game. And then the fun begins. Sure it does.
The biggest question these days is not how Taylor performs on the screen, but how she looks. Well, she looks great.
Otherwise, this is a flat, overlit, pedestrian, humdrum, drag-along movie that wastes not only Taylor as Alice but also Tom Skerritt as a straight-talking, straight-shooting bounty hunter with a down-deep heart of gold. The cast also includes Richard Mulligan, David Wayne and George Hamilton as Alice’s “cousin” John.
Written by James Lee Barrett and directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman, “Poker Alice” was filmed in Old Tucson, Ariz., but could easily pass for something shot on a studio back lot. It’s inoffensive, but also uncompelling.
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