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High Noon. Gary Cooper as an embattled cow-town marshal facing four desperadoes singlehanded in a topnotch western (TIME, July...
...story log house in the one-crop tobacco country near Lowes, Ky. He was the eldest of eight children, and his father's favorite. When Alben had outgrown the little Lowes school, his father loaded the family and their possessions into a single wagon and, with the cow trailing behind, moved to Clinton, Ky. so Alben could go to Marvin College. Alben worked his way through Marvin as janitor (years later a wag posted a sign on the lawn: "Barkley Swept Here"), won high grades and a medal for oratory...
...lead a commando raid on Armorel to rescue Venus. Meanwhile the enemy, headed by Commandant George Coulouris, is preparing to ship Venus to Germany. There ensues a tour de force of arms, with a British submarine braving minefields and Luftwaffe to reach Armorel, an artist hastingly camouflaging another cow to look like Venus in order to confound the Germans, and a battle in which a British destroyer sinks a German E-boat with depth charges...
High Noon (Stanley Kramer; United Artists), creeping up on Hadleyville (pop. 400) one hot Sunday morning in 1870, is the moment of crisis for the little western cow town. Desperado Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald), whose jail sentence has been commuted through a political deal, is coming back on the noon train to take his revenge on the marshal (Gary Cooper) who sent him up. The marshal is no hero; he has already turned in his badge and is leaving Hadleyville with his wife (Grace Kelly) to open a general store in another town. But he turns back. There...
...Cow Flew. Sholom Aleichem was a master at capturing the folk poetry and humorous abuses of Yiddish speech, and even in a rather stiff translation something of the verbal crackle comes through. When a character wants to dismiss a story as nonsense, he says: "A cow flew over the roof and laid an egg." The actors' scorn of domesticity is expressed in their saying: "The best marriage is the worst death." When a director wants to tell the angel that the best of plans take money, he cracks: "Without fingers you can't thumb your nose...