Word: fadeouts
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When she finally cuddles, beneath the covers, the camera moves in for a gulping closeup. Nancy murmurs "good night" but makes it sound like an invitation marked R.S.V.P. Her eyes close, her lips part gently and she drifts off to slumberland to fadeout music and a cartoon of fence-jumping sheep...
...this horseplay, Raleigh boldly kicks up his heels. For this the Queen could hand Sir Walter his head, but by this time she is so encumbered with other worries that she just gives him a ship and his lady and tells them to get the hell out of town. Fadeout: Raleigh, his arm around Beth, sets sail for America to get his face on a million tobacco cans; back at the palace Queen Elizabeth, old and dejected carries...
...last, he is thanked by the parson "for sparing her." Ted gasps: "Me! and that sanctimonious, psalm-singing little prig! I've never been so insulted in my life!" The idea so unnerves him, in fact, that he gets smashing drunk to drive it out of his mind. Fadeout : Ted at the harmonium, wheezing away at a hymn, and reeking of salvation quite as repulsively as he ever did of booze...
...wedding day, Doris leaves Gig at the altar with his ego and elopes with Frankie to a city hovel. There are the usual misunderstandings, more cruel blows from the Fates and an attempted suicide before the happy fadeout around the family piano...
Such questions are not to be answered lightly, and Lone Hand answers them slowly and laboriously. But Joel is no bad man, pardner. By the fadeout, love, justice, righteousness-as well as Hollywood type-casting-have been vindicated...