Word: fess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). For a musical salute to Ethel Merman's career, Merman on Broadway collected Tab Hunter, Fess Parker and Tom Poston. Color...
...revolves sluggishly around the efforts of a boy (James MacArthur) to resist being taken back to his white parents after having grown up as the adopted son of a Delaware Indian chief. On hand to make sure the boy minds his rail-splitting is a right friendly Army scout (Fess Parker). Actor MacArthur, who is built like a fireplug and is not much more expressive, sets out to make a mess of Fess. He swings at him with a rifle butt, wrestles with him in the muddy Ohio River. But sure 'nuff, he ends up back at the ranch...
...widespread stride of a U.C.L.A. halfback). But with patience and Parker working hand in glove, the boy is soon dolled up in pale blue breeches, reading from the Beatitudes and gazing blankly at a wide-eyed bit of fluff (Broadway's Carol Lynley) from across the road. Fess himself makes sheep's eyes at the preacher's daughter (Joanne...
Best of the off-lot singers, but still sounding as if he'd rather grip a bar of soap than a microphone: FESS (Davy Crockett) PARKER, who drawls some uncowmanlike mush ("Ah got me a purty woman's love") in Wringle Wrangle (Disneyland), manages to keep face with the kiddies by cracking a whip and hollering every few bars...
...time goes (ever so slowly) by, the rest of the cast seem to relax and act natural-like too. The hero (Fess Parker) gulps and cuts in on the heroine (Kathleen Crowley) at the hoedown. The braves at the war dance start truckin' on down to that red-hot ethnic music. And here they come! "Get 'em movin'," Hero Parker hollers-"Ah'll cover the r'ar!" The race to the pass begins...