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After $1,500,000 worth of ballyhoo, the costliest (some $6,000,000) and longest (134 minutes) horse opera ever made was finally being shown to the public. In Los Angeles, David 0. Selznick's Technicolored Duel in the Sun was running simultaneously in two theaters. Local reviewers found the extravaganza a titillating blend of wild oats and tame, well-worn plot, in which virtue emerged triumphant, but low-bodiced vice seemed to have all the fun. Nevertheless, the furor was up to Selznick's expectations-if not quite the kind of furor he had paid his advertising...
Archbishop John J. Cantwell of Los Angeles warned Roman Catholics that they may not "with a free conscience" see Duel, It was "morally offensive and spiritually depressing." Another churchman deplored the "shouting piety" of Walter Huston playing the "Sin Killer." The city's Federation of Protestant Churches charged that "wrongdoing was shown to win every conflict with the right." The Catholic Tidings, describing Duel's heroine, Jennifer Jones, as "unduly if not indecently exposed," called the film "far worse, in a moral sense" than Howard Hughes's outlawed The Outlaw...
...vanquished. Her frustration was sharply symbolized by one elderly woman of Worcester, Mass., who stood on a street corner futilely waving while bus after crowded bus passed her by. Finally, she stepped in front of one, stamped her foot and for 20 minutes she and the driver fought a duel of wills as obdurate as two peacemaking statesmen. This unidentified Worcesterite, impatient at the complexities that lay between her and simple goals, was the Woman of the Year...
...years as a welder and chemist in the steel mills at Magnitogorsk, for four years as a newsman in Moscow (he was expelled for reporting too well). He married a Russian, speaks German and Russian fluently. He is the author of three books about the U.S.S.R.: Behind the Urals, Duel for Europe and Europe in Revolution...
Releasing Organization. S.R.O. (which could also mean Standing Room Only) would go to work distributing the latest Selznick epic, the $5,500,000 Technicolor Duel...