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...Tall Men (Columbia), a tall adventure tale of the French Foreign Legion, treats its old formula so lightheartedly that it becomes the beau jest of the genre. Burt Lancaster, the devil-may-care sergeant, recruits nine rough, tough men from the Legion's brig (Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias et al.) for a dangerous mission. The regiment is away from the fort; Riff tribes are uniting to attack. Lancaster's outnumbered riffraff must hold off the Riffs until reinforcements arrive...
...game of switching players around. It was his transfer of Jack Robinson to first base that gave Burt Shotton his pennant in Leo's exile year...
...Born. To Burt Lancaster, 37, carnival acrobat turned cinema tough guy (The Flame and the Arrow, The Killers) and Norma Anderson Lancaster, 34: their fourth child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Joanna Mari. Weight...
When to Relax. Such clutch hitting and pitching makes Dressen's managing job seem easy. He claims it is: "Hell, they manage themselves." But Charley Dressen had added something to make a runaway leader out of a team that (under Burt Shotton) floundered along behind Philadelphia most of last season, then lost the pennant on the final day by failing when the chips were down...
...third-base coaching line, Dressen unfurls a series of antic semaphore signs, punctuated by shrill whistles, designed to befuddle opponents and give Dodger hitters and runners the benefit of his 31 years' experience as player (third base with Cincinnati), coach and manager. Unlike self-effacing ex-Manager Burt Shotton, he is no dugout sphinx. If some second-guessing fan questions his strategy, he is likely to switch his attentions to the crowd...