Word: cochrane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ginger is the only witness to the murder, and almost the only one in town who might dare to testify against the high-riding Klan. But when she meets her brother-in-law (Steve Cochran) for the first time, she recognizes him as one of the murdering Klansmen. Buffeted by her sister's pleading, the Klan's threats and pressure from a Klan-busting prosecutor (Ronald Reagan), she must decide whether to join or break the town's scared conspiracy of silence...
...local mill-owning Klan bigwig (Hugh Sanders) is pictured as a cynical racketeer fattening on the dues and fees of an ignorant rank & file. In the movie's best performance, Actor Cochran, bullying and toadying by turn, creates a picture of an ugly, slack-witted Klansman. Storm Warning hits hard at these characters. By knowing when to feint as well as when to punch, the picture loses no excitement, gains a chance to make its message connect where it will do the most good...
Died. Sir Charles Blake Cochran, 78, England's leading showman ("The British Barnum"); of injuries suffered in scalding bath water, which he was too crippled by arthritis to turn off; in London. Shrewd "C.B." started out selling a quack ointment in the U.S., wound up selling Britain's top stars (Noel Coward, Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence) to transatlantic theatergoers. Specializing in both beauty ("Mr. Cochran's Young Ladies") and beasts (he introduced rodeo to a somewhat startled England), he promoted anything he considered a good show ("I would rather see a good juggler than a bad Hamlet...
Dallas (Warner) as pictured in this high-budget western, is a culturally aspiring town without indoor plumbing, Nieman-Marcus or much law & order. It makes a backdrop for a story about ex-Confederate Colonel Gary Cooper's revenge against the carpetbaggers (Raymond Massey, Steve Cochran) who razed his Georgia home and are busily raising the devil in Texas...
Dallas packs plenty of guns and keeps them smoking; it spurs its horses vigorously over a well-traveled, well-Technicolored course. The picture rises a bit above the level of the standard western by dint of some dabs of humor and Actor Cochran's performance as a dull-witted second villain who takes a gleeful pride in his dastardly work...