Word: ambushers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshal Douglas rescues a salty old rustler (Walter Brennan) from being lynched as a murderer, and starts back with him to distant Santa Loma for trial. Along the way he endures interference by the rustler's hellcatty daughter (Virginia Mayo), ambush and pursuit by the lynch mob, the shooting of one deputy, the treachery of another, the loss of his horse, a desert sandstorm and a three-day spell of thirst and sleeplessness. Worst of all, he is sorely tormented by his prisoner's sadistic singing of a ballad that summons up the marshal's old guilt...
Spencer Tracy again plays the suburban paterfamilias who is reluctantly but irresistibly swept past a domestic milestone on a floodtide of warm comedy. This time, just when springtime is making him chipper enough to pinch his wife (Joan Bennett) from ambush, Tracy learns that his daughter (Elizabeth Taylor) will soon make a grandfather...
...Eighth Army moved warily northward. Two U.S. armored columns raided across the parallel on the western flank of the peninsula. One rolled up the main road north of Uijongbu toward Kumhwa; air spotters, directing artillery, helped it get back again before a Red ambush could be sprung. The second column, thrusting north of the Chongpyong Reservoir, ran into an enemy ambush of grenade and machine-gun fire, but managed to fight its way out to U.N. lines below the parallel. Along the central front above Chunchon, the enemy counterattacked; the main blow in his anticipated offensive seemed likely to come...
...Everybody Got Rattled." The Americans broke through the Reds early the second night, only to run into an ambush...
...thick Foret Inondee to the west and the marshes of the Plaine des Jones to the east. Fifteen times in the last year the French have gone out after the Communists in the Cis Bassac. Only twice have they made contact, each time by falling into a Communist ambush from which only superior firepower saved them. Last week the French made another attempt to track down and destroy the guerrillas. TIME Correspondent John Dowling saw the fight, cabled...