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...Angels (adapted from the French of Albert Husson by Sam & Bella Spewack) makes a very enjoyable evening of an always piquant theme. It tells how three badmen-convicts, in fact-become the good angels of a sadly harassed household. The scene is French Guiana, a region where on Christmas Day the temperature graciously drops to 104°, and where convicts can not only hire out but apparently never have to report back. The Messrs. Fixit of My 3 Angels are employed as roofers by a family in dire danger of having no roof over their heads: on the way from...
...gives the program its theoretical latitude is the fact that it was designed (and is supported) by the Ford Foundation, whose object is not money but an attempt to exploit new TV horizons. The first show of the series set the pace for the future: two original plays (The Badmen, by William Saroyan, and The Trial of Anne Boleyn, by Maxwell Anderson); excerpts from The Mikado, with Britain's famed Martyn Green; two short films (Witch Doctor, an authentic Haitian dance with Jean Leon Destine, and clips from an X-ray movie...
When the settlers reach Oregon, the blood really starts to flow: a pitched battle in Portland, a running fight up the Columbia River, an ambuscade on the slopes of Mt. Hood. Having eliminated most of the badmen on the Pacific Coast, Stewart and Kennedy start taking potshots at each other, and stage their final death grapple in a mountain torrent. At intervals in the gunfire, Stewart and Gambler Rock Hudson make sheep's eyes at Julia Adams and Lori Nelson. Funnyman Stepin' Fetchit, after a movie absence of 15 years, is back in Bend of the River...
...search brings Cowhand Kennedy to Marlene's ranch on the Mexican border, a fancy men's club restricted to desperadoes who want rest and relaxation between their brushes with the law. While Kennedy tries to decide which of the resident badmen killed his girl, Marlene sings throatily, lazily crosses her beautiful legs, and looks sultry. She also irritates Gunman Mel Ferrer by going on moonlight walks with Kennedy and murmuring such sweet nothings as "I wish you'd go away and come back ten years...
...film after film, Wayne has larned the bad 'uns that villainy don't pay. In Stagecoach, possibly the best western picture ever made, he laid low two badmen with his trusty Winchester, reloading for the second kill as he dived to the ground to dodge the bullets of the first. As a white-clad lieutenant in a picture called Seven Sinners, he managed, by sheer force of innocence and a trusting heart, to turn a bedizened sinner (Marlene Dietrich) into a good woman and to preserve the honor of the U.S. Navy as well. Only very rarely...