Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jean (The Duenna) Karsavina's libretto, the mustachioed gambler challenges champion frog Dan'l Webster's owner Smiley, then feeds Dan'l up on quail shot while the boys are outside laying their bets for the easy money. Before the contest comes off, the gambler strolls off for a mustache-twirling romance-which provides Composer Foss with an opportunity for some witty, satirical mustache-twirling music. Dan'l loses the contest, but the villain's villainies are found out, and he is brought to frontier justice...
Strikingly photographed in black & white, the film is directed with an eye to realistic detail, an ear for the script's frequently natural dialogue and a knack for building suspense. It also has some good performances by Dan Duryea, John McIntire and Millard Mitchell, as well as Actors Stewart and McNally. Heroine Shelley Winters, who seems lost in all the uproar, might as well have been lost in the script...
...Ticket to Tomahawk. The first trip of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler (minus 40 miles of track) in the Colorado Rockies; played for laughs by Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter (TIME...
When Willie Comes Marching Home. A sprightly farce that ribs Army brass and a hero-loving public; with Dan Dailey (TIME, March...
...Ticket to Tomahawk. The first trip of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler (minus 40 miles of track) in the Colorado Rockies; played for laughs by Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter (TIME...