Word: duel
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...house lights come up, and above the hubbub in the aisles one can hear a spectral voice pronounced in awe-filled tones, "The overture...Duel in the Sun..." And thus begins David O. Selznick's nine-million dollar horse opera. Of this pile of cash a very substantial share has been invested in what has been perhaps the most immense hoopla campaign since Thomas A. Edison invented the motion picture. Such an unparalelled barrage of publicity has been such a long stretch of time that quite a sizable fraction of the population already is intent upon seeing the picture...
Boston University's alert baseball team ended a brilliant pitching duel between the Varsity's Brendan Reilly and the Terriers' Dick Snow with a single run in the tenth inning to turn back the Crimson, 2 to 1, at chilly Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon...
Producer David O. Selznick, whose outdoors extravaganza, Duel in the Sun, had shocked moralists of several faiths, tinkered busily here & there, finally won from the Catholic Legion of Decency a "B" rating-meaning that the picture is now considered bad only in spots. Number of spots pared out: 46. But the costly, sure-fire Duel, Selznick assured the world, was practically as long as ever, and "its dramatic values and integrity have not suffered in the least...
...Douglas) ; makes a pass (unsuccessful) at devout Frances Dee; contracts a convenience marriage with Widow Dvorak over the scarcely cold body of her husband; frames her with Diplomat Warren William in order to be free to marry little Miss Douglas; buys a title and, ultimately, gets killed in a duel...
Another protracted duel is fought over Mr. Tracy's unhappy wife (Katharine Hepburn). At a meeting in Denver-so discreetly handled, for the censors' sake, that it all seems to have been managed by pollination-Mr. Douglas gets Miss Hepburn with child. After the child grows up to be Robert Walker and has paid the inevitable price for his mother's sin (i.e., he gets killed off), the picture is quickly put out of its misery...