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Split Second (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio) seems to be a dramatic chip off Robert Sherwood's 1935 play, The Petrified Forest. It tells of a desperado who holds a group of strangers at gunpoint mercy, but it adds an up-to-date plot switch: the action takes place in a Nevada ghost town located in a restricted testing-ground area where an atom bomb is about...
...Best supporting actor: Anthony Quinn for his desperado role in Viva Zapata...
...lustful killer (Ralph Meeker) to menace a quiet family vacationing in Lower California. When the husband (Barry Sullivan) is accidentally pinned down on a beach by rotting jetty timbers, his desperate wife (Barbara Stanwyck) sets out to find help before the tide comes in. She promptly runs into the desperado, who not only commandeers her car but begins leering at her. Does the wife outwit the bad man? Is the husband saved before the tide comes in? Do the police catch the killer? For this elaborately rigged situation, Jeopardy uses too much ragged dialogue and too little real suspense...
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...
...much for him-or rather, too little. Laid in Texas, it tells of a violent killer who breaks out of the pen, and of a small-town sheriff's fierce efforts to recapture him without having to kill him or let the townspeople string him up. Since the desperado is almost more anxious to bump off the sheriff than to make a getaway, the situation is fairly knotty...