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Meanwhile, back at the Roundtable, Sir Gawain was in a snit. That fresh Viking kid had lit out with Missy Aleta--and after all Gawain had done for the squirt. Well, you know those Vikings, give them a barleycorn and they take a league...
...actors, too, were chosen for their resemblance to the comic-strip characters. Robert Wagner, in a pageboy wig and leather buskins, is Prince Val stepping off the page. Janet Leigh, in a palomino peruke, makes a pretty Aleta, James Mason a swart and athletic villain. A couple of vikings, Victor McLaglen and former Heavyweight Champ Primo Camera, with their grunting and spluttering through chin-wigs, give a show that can only be matched by the Wednesday-night wrestling on television...
...picture is a rapid rundown of Val's early adventures. A viking prince whose throne has been usurped, Val comes to Camelot to ask for a seat at the Table Round. Refused, he becomes a squire to Sir Gawain (Sterling Hay den), falls in love with the Princess Aleta of Ord, is captured by his viking foe, escapes, leads a charge on the enemy citadel, foils a plot to betray King Arthur, kills the villain with his "Singing Sword," and wins his lady fair-all in 100 minutes...
...Died, Aleta Freel, 28, actress (Both Your Houses,Double Door), Smith College graduate, wife of Cinemactor Ross Alexander (A Midsummer Night's Dream), by her own hand (rifle) ; in Hollywood...
Double Door (by Elizabeth McFadden; Potter & Haight, producers). Victoria Van Bret (Mary Morris, malevolent Abbie in Desire Under the Elms}, a tyrannous New York aristocrat of the celluloid collar era, dominates her half-brother Rip and her younger sister Caroline with an insane despotism. When Anne Darrow (Aleta Freel of Both Your Houses}, Rip's nurse during an attack of pneumonia, is about to marry the Van Bret scion, Victoria forbids organ music, refuses to attend ' the ceremony, locks up the wedding presents and denies the bride the Van Bret pearls which are by will...