Word: fadeouts
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...cashiered Union Army officer (Ralph Meeker) have cut themselves in on the reward money as Stewart's partners. Since this is a big Technicolor western, there is also a girl along for the ride, played by Janet Leigh in a becoming boyish blonde hairdo. By the fadeout, the bad man, the prospector and the Army officer are dead, and true love has found the girl and the pursuer...
...belles of New York's squalid Lower East Side: pretty Hannah (Patricia Hardy), brassy Georgia (Joyce Holden) and "ugly" Vera (Jacqueline Greene). Spurred on by jealousy of the other two girls, Vera tries to frame them for a murder committed by her boy friend (Don Gordon). At the fadeout, the real killer has been electrocuted on high-voltage wires after a helter-skelter chase along the waterfront, and things are looking rosier for Hannah, Georgia and their boy friends...
...variations on one situation: a brave little boy keeping a stiff upper lip in the face of his dad's continual boozing and crapshooting. This he accomplishes largely by saying "Aw, gee" and looking forlornly at the camera. As in the original version, the father dies at the fadeout-in this case, after having made good on a television show...
...comeback? As each of the trio speculates on the past in flashback, he gradually comes to realize that the producer is not entirely a heel; in fact, he is sort of lovable, for is he not responsible for the swimming pools and the Oscars they have accumulated? Inevitably, the fadeout finds them again throwing in their lot with...
Naturally, these treasonous baubles turn Viveca's head. By the fadeout, the attache and the by-now-thoroughly-glamorous Viveca have escaped from Czechoslovakia to the U.S. zone in Austria, outwitting a political-police chief who is addicted to such pronouncements as "Love is purely a private enterprise. The state must come first." Of some interest in the proceedings are the authentic-looking backgrounds, filmed entirely in Austria...