Word: badmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arizona territory. So far, Wyatt Earp (starring Hugh O'Brian) has permitted only the occasional intrusion of women, but Brave Eagle (with Keith Larsen and Kim Winona) and Gunsmoke each have a hot-eyed heroine ready and willing to buckle on the guns and go out after the badmen if Frontier's ratings decree that women belong in the saddle and the men should go back to the range -the kitchen range, that...
...United Artists) has all the splendid cardboard heroics of the classic western. Sheridan City is so terrorized by a villainous rancher named Dade Holman that the panicky citizens hire flint-eyed, flint-faced Robert Mitchum to civilize the community. Inside of ten minutes, four of Holman's badmen are being measured for coffins. Casually holstering his guns, Town-Tamer Mitchum suggests burying at least two of them out on the wild prairie, because "Sheridan City's too small to have such a big cemetery...
What emerges is a surprisingly good movie. Aircraft Worker Jack Kelly stops to pick up a hitchhiker (Vince Edwards) and the next moment is looking into the business end of a pistol. Following orders, he turns off on a side road where two other badmen join forces with the first. Disgusted by the emptiness of Kelly's wallet, the leader, John Cassavetes (who starred as a juvenile delinquent in ABC's memorable TV Crime in the Streets), wings a couple of shots past his head. The gang then attempts to sell Kelly's car, and failing...
...this time Jimmy is beginning to think that Derek can't be trusted. After the Comanches massacre most of the badmen for him, Cagney tracks Derek and Borgnine to their lair, disposes of both (with some last-minute help from Derek, who has had still another change of heart), and returns to Viveca Lindfors and a happy ending...
...Digest (Mon. 8 p.m., ABC-TV) is a good series or a dismal one, depending on which of its first two shows are considered. The opener, called The Last of the Old-Time Shooting Sheriffs, was a witty debunking of the classic western with its quick-drawing, deadshot badmen and goodmen. The veteran sheriff of the title, played with creaking excellence by Russ Simpson, was a gun slinger who preferred a donkey to a spirited stallion, avoided trouble when he could, and in a gun battle, always got his man by holding onto his revolver with both hands while...