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...westerns. On Tuesday night a viewer could find hardly anything but six-shooters and cowpunchers. Armstrong Circle Theater proved again that the good guy can always outshoot the bad guy; Danger tried hard to mix comedy with its gun fighting in The Last Duel in Virginia City, while Elgin Hour presented Black Eagle Pass, a homily on the evils of bigamy in the Far West. Paul Douglas got a single-tracked power into his role of the blackmailed and misunderstood bigamist, and the Western setting was apparently justified in the last act when Douglas' difficulties were neatly solved...
...Elgin Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Paul Douglas in Black Eagle Pass...
Desperate Young. Not for the tender-minded was the week's most probing social drama, Crime in the Streets (ABC's Elgin Hour, Tues. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), about the effect of grinding poverty on a sullen 18-year-old named Frankie (John Cassavetes). Author Reginald Rose's dialogue was blunt and crisp, with an authentic cadence and idiom. When a social worker (Robert Preston) asks Frankie why he is at home, just lying on his crumpled, ratty bed, he gets an unforgettable cry of anguish masked in a snarl: "Because I got a hole...
...Elgin Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). The Thousand Dollar Window, with Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Mary Astor...
...Elgin Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Sting of Death, with Boris Karloff, Hermione Gingold, Martyn Green...