Word: coleen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fury at Furnace Creek. A western with Victor Mature, Coleen Gray and Reginald Gardiner and some highly skilled suspense (TIME, July...
Mature effectively extends his new lease on life as a sympathetic tough guy (Kiss of Death). Coleen Gray, as his high-principled girl friend, is pert and pretty but has very little to do. Reginald Gardiner, one of the villains, suffers very well as a man who has fallen so low that the mere dodging of death is all that he lives for. Peaceful Jones (Charles Kemper) is a refreshing anomaly from the tired list of western old-timers and dry-tongued farmers. After each Saturday-night drunk, he is chained to a tremendous log (Furnace Creek...
...ladder made of ladies. Rung No. 1 is Zeena (Joan Blondell), the midway's mentalist. He plays cozy with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate to the big time. No. 2 is a luscious, loyal dimwit named Molly (Coleen Gray), whom he marries. No. 3 is Lilith (Helen Walker), a pseudo-psychiatrist who outsmarts him at his own racket...
...treachery cause him to turn state's evidence. Thereafter he belongs, body & soul, to Assistant District Attorney D'Angelo (Brian Donlevy). His liberty depends on his cooperativeness as a stool pigeon. His life, and the safety of his children and his second wife (attractively played by newcomer Coleen Gray) depend much too precariously on secrecy and on police protection. Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark), against whom Nick is forced to appear in court, is unexpectedly acquitted; and Udo is a sure killer. The rest of the picture shows how Nick, with the help-and hindrance-of the law, tries...
...After the last showing of The Forest Rangers, Coleen Jones, daytime soda dispenser at Hall's drugstore, got as far as the courthouse square: "There were five of us girls with soldiers from Dalhart. ... A bomb dropped. I asked a soldier what it was and he said, 'By God, it's bombs!' We ran just as fast as we could...