Word: cowhand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narrator of The Trail to Christmas, Hollywood's James Stewart spun a seasonal western yarn about an hombre named Ebenezer Scrooge, "the richest man in the whole territory." Sure enough, Dickens' A Christmas Carol made itself right at home on the range. When Bob Cratchit, a cowhand squatting on Scrooge's land, made his entrance, Scrooge snapped: "Where've you been? Rustlin' some of my cattle? It don't seem you're ever at the ranch when I come by." Marley's ghost wore a ten-gallon hat, toted a burden...
...head of the Benedict clan. His work in the past has scarcely suggested the insight and ability which he reveals in this film. Elizabeth Taylor, in the role of Benedict's wife, is at least satisfactory and still very lovely. The performance of the late James Dean as the cowhand-millionaire, while perhaps not his best, does show that he was gaining control over his rather nervous acting style. In all, Giant is a work of considerable technical excellence marred--as are so many films, and not only the products of Hollywood--by a fundamental confusion of purpose...
...level-eyed Sheriff Meeks lacks training as an investigator. "Hell," he drawls, "I'm just an ex-cowhand." But he has an innate canniness that serves him well in enforcing the law, with only one deputy, over 3,800 square miles. Notified that Wilson had not returned, he went to the spot where the car had stood. From there he followed two sets of men's tracks, leading into the hills. Just before sundown he found Wilson's bullet-torn body. The tracks indicated that the two men had walked side by side until they came...
...Cowhand Cooper's lean hips seem almost nude without a couple of trusty six-shooters, but the script allows him to remain as unbendingly oaken as ever in the face of all storms, meteorological as well as emotional, and he manages to make the tough, footloose sailing man reasonably credible. The picture's best feature: its richly authentic atmosphere. Filmed entirely in British West Samoa, the movie offers strikingly Technicolored views of the sea, the island and its people, swimming in their blue lagoon, climbing tall palms, and doing their intricately graceful Sasa, classical dance of Samoa. Unlike...
...starts off promisingly as a character study of tensions among the hard-riding, hard-living members of the broken-bone-and-bandage set, but soon falls into a conventional movie mold. A Texas cowhand (Arthur Kennedy) becomes a champion rider with the help of a has-been rodeo ace (Robert Mitchum). But Kennedy has a beautiful red-haired wife (Susan Hay-ward). So just as much action begins to develop outside the rodeo arena as inside when the two men tangle over the lady. The gustiest characterization in The Lusty Men is provided by Arthur Hunnicutt as a punchy...