Network televisers, regarded by the moviemakers as dangerous rivals, complain that they cannot afford Hollywood's price for anything better than westerns and ancient grade B's. Independent station WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, has been solving the problem by importing good movies; last year, it bought from Sir Alexander Korda the rights to 24 British films. Now that the last Korda movies are being televised, WPIX is ready with a new 13-film packageĀa mixed bag of eleven English and two American hits of a decade ago.
Included are such classics as Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Major Barbara, three Charles...
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